Odyssée Maghreb
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. Odyssée Maghreb was shot in January 2026, moving from the medinas of the north down through the Atlas mountains and into the last light before the desert starts for real.
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.
“A film about what moves you when everything slows down.”
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.
The edit took three weeks. Four hours of material, cut to eighteen minutes. The music is an unofficial recording from a Moroccan wedding — nothing licensed, a little worn at the edges. It was the only thing that fit.
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