Art Dubai: Booth B1

Here Scripts involves a Moroccan offsite, the Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate, as the shooting location for the video work.

Atlas Studios is a film studio located about 200 km from Marrakech - measured by acreage, it is the world's largest film studio. Films that have used the services of the studio include "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Jewel of the Nile", "The Living Daylights", "The Mummy", "Gladiator", "Kingdom of Heaven", "Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra", "Babel", as well as episodes of "Game of Thrones".

Here Scripts extracts script lines from movies that were shot at Atlas Studios, which contain statements about the actual site or specific context the movie plot was set in. Taken out of their plot context and erasing the former narration, Here Scripts puts these extracted lines into new connections with the site of the Atlas Studios, quoting filmic descriptions of "The Other"/ "Oriental“ sites, settings and people, while re-using the filmsets and their tangible construction for a newly scripted, fragmented story of the site.

Representational values and equations are dismantled and statements are dropped into uncertainty: Who is the narrator / that speaks / from where / about what / to whom? Can the location, based on its film history, script for itself?

Working as a video mashup, Here Scripts is juggling notions of place and context, onsite vs offsite, narration vs construction, here vs elsewhere.