Vizor
Eye on Art: Vizor
Artist Hamza Halloubi’s first feature film is about a man who unknowningly married his sister. Vizor is a powerful visualisation of the insoluble situations life dishes out.
Hamza Halloubi’s experimental feature film starts like a classic film: a couple with a child discover they are brother and sister. However, inside a few minutes, the tension dissipates and the illusion collapses. Colours shift, the camera reveals itself and the director appears on screen, ignoring every convention.
What develops is no ordinary tale, but an exploration of “the impossibility of storytelling” i.e. Hamza Halloubi (Morrocco 1982, lives and works in Brussels) exploring what film’s limits are as well as the concept of cinema as a narrative art.
Vizor will screen to accompany the exhibition Hamza Halloubi, Its throat is parched with thirst, but it would not accept a single drop of water from alien hands, at De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg (13 September 2025 – 1 March 2026).
Introduced by Maria Schnyder (the deputy director of and a curator at De Pont) followed by a conversation between Schnyder and Halloubi.
Hamza Halloubi’s has previously been screened at Eye, among other things, as part of the exhibition Close-Up – A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands (2016).
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Director
Hamza Halloubi
Length
116 min.
Language
English
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