Odyssée Maghreb
Two weeks across the Atlas, down to the Sahara.
- Location
- Morocco
- Date
- 2025
- Type
- Documentary
The Story
Twelve days south of everything recognisable. No client, no brief — just a car pointed toward the Sahara and a camera that needed to be earned. Shot moving from the medinas of the north down through the Atlas mountains and into the last light before the desert starts for real.
The Landscape
Morocco teaches you to slow down whether you want to or not. The first few days were an adjustment — learning the pace, reading the light, understanding that the best frame usually arrives five minutes after you've already packed the camera away. The Atlas mountains give you scale you can't manufacture in post. We drove them twice.
The People
Every person in this film agreed to be there. That sounds obvious, but in documentary it's everything. Most had never been in front of a camera. There's a quality to that — an unguardedness — that you can't direct or replicate. You just have to be ready when it shows up.
“A film about what moves you when everything slows down.”
Hyrox Bordeaux
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