Amie Barouh
Resident 1
Residency period January - March
Residency focus

Biography

Amie Barouh was born in 1993, in Tokyo, Japan. She lives and works between France and Romania.   She creates an experimental documentary giving voice to those at the margin of society. Her films take the form of 'Film diary', between documentaries and visual essays, aim first to transmit an experience, lived as it is. Her subjective editing espouses her heartbeat, reconstructing the full complexity of documenting the world to which we do not belong. Amie Barouh’s work has been presented in numerous institutions including Villa Medici Film Festival (Italy, 2022), Biennale de la jeune creation (France, 2022), Emerige Revelations (France, 2022), FilMadrid Festival (Spain, 2019), and Vision du Réel Festival (Switzerland, 2019).

Project

The Alchemist

Through “The Alchemist”, Amie Barouh wants to archive the resistance of marginalized people through magic tricks; keeping in mind concerns about social boundaries and respecting their cultural norms.  Belief; faith, affects the perception we have. That is why she wants to work around magic, the art of manipulation of reality and belief. What you think is real, is not really real. The reality is not what you think.  Magic as healing, magic as a political tool, magic as resistance, magic as making miracles, magic as an access to another way of thinking.  Amie Barouh would like to combine fieldwork of meeting the different minority communities with her artistic explorations of video ; journaling and use of magic. In her work, she links the need for beliefs with the resilience of discriminated minorities.

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