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Calorie Rating: 17
Released: 2025-09-06
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Homepage: https://36.bienal.org.br/en/artista/laila-hida-en/
Studios: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Jeu de Paume, Caravane Tighmert, LE 18,


In Sange Khara, commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 36th Bienal, Laila Hida offers a landscape where memory is not narrated, but circled – tentatively, tenderly, with the gravity of something sacred and half-forgotten. The project stages a kind of poetic inquiry where images seem to emerge from a re-constructed memory anchored by a 16mm film and expanded through an immersive installation. Characters cross paths, brought together through a tapestry of iconographic and cinematic references: the young woman from The Wanderers of the Desert (1984), the couple in The Sheltering Sky (1990). Two young guys ride their bikes and strike poses on a dirt road as if freshly cast in a rap video summoning an apparition, a construct of a landscape, the desert, the oasis, and the people who inhabit them, filtered through cinema and image.

Director / Directors

Laila Hida
Director


Cast

Niki Kohandel
Character: Isabelle Eberhardt / The daughter of the Cheikh / The singer
Othman El Kheloufi
Character: The Master of Sound
Carlos Pérez Marín
Character: The spanish explorator

Oli Bonzanigo
Character: Kit Moresby
Jake Wiener
Character: Port Moresby
Ilyass Dabbah
Character: Biker with green cheche

Oussama Affani
Character: Biker with brown cheche
Lahbib Bellayni
Character: The seller
Hassan Ouayour
Character: The voice calling Oussama


Production and Crew

Laila Hida
Camera Operator
Jake Wiener
Technical Advisor

Othman El Kheloufi
Sound Designer
Hassan Ouayour
Camera Operator
Ahmed Salem Debbah
Location Manager


Deirdre Keough
Color Grading
Haitham Haddad
Title Designer