Sur les ruines de Babylone
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The project
Sur les ruines de Babylone revisits the making of the Tunisian documentary Babylon, directed in 2012 by ismaël, Youssef Chebbi and Ala Eddine Slim. A film about making a film, a shared experience, and what remains of it.
The project starts from the traces of that experience: images, archives, testimonies and memories of the work. It considers filming, editing and sound, and the passage from a historical event into cinema.
Babylon, the original film
At the Tunisian-Libyan border during the 2011 war in Libya, a camp takes shape. People from different countries wait and organise a temporary life. Babylon observes this territory, its gestures and its languages without explanatory narration or continuous translation.
- Original film
- Babylon · 2012
- Directors
- ismaël, Youssef Chebbi, Ala Eddine Slim
- Production
- Exit Productions
- Editing
- ismaël, Ala Eddine Slim
- Sound editing / mixing
- Yazid Chebbi
- Colour grading
- Fakhreddine Amri
Traces & history of the original film
- 2011Filming at the Tunisian-Libyan border.
- 2012World premiere and International Competition Grand Prix at FIDMarseille.
- 2012Screenings at Doclisboa and MoMA, New York.
- 2014Tunisia Focus, Visions du Réel.
- 2026Route du Doc: Tunisia, États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas.
These dates and distinctions belong to Babylon (2012), not to the new documentary.