Festina Lente

Synopsis

Combining two contradictory terms in a single phrase is called an oxymoron. Circumventing the obvious, shaking up the logic, proceeding in gusts, claiming the impossible, such is the method that Baya Medhaffar has chosen and, adopting an ancient motto, she makes it clear right from the title: “Make haste slowly”. There are several explanations for this speed proclaimed yet slowed all at once. Her film is mostly made of edited, assembled images from other films; thus, all the emergencies from other works reach a climax here, but as they overlap, they also call for their patient and detailed examination. The dishevelled editing is combined to a superimposition technique that makes scales collide, that associate separated figures and backgrounds, and that ties together in the same frame seemingly unrelated dynamics and lines of forces.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Baya Medhaffar
Writing	Writer	Baya Medhaffar
Camera	Director of Photography	Baya Medhaffar Med Zanina
Editing	Editor	Baya Medhaffar
Sound	Music	Great Fast Ships
	Sound	Ismail Ben Abdelghaffar
Department	Role	Name

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