Abdelaziz Taleb
Artist, Cinema, Multidisciplinary, Production, Video
Morocco

Mixed media artist, producer, archival artist, and curator. He is the founder and director of The Arab Marrakech Digital festival and media lab project, where he plans artist programs, debates, workshops and trainings.

His films and videos are seen as an extension of Taleb’s body, exploring different visions around poetry, inner identity, soul purification, and the deep social. Several of which had been selected for films and videos certified by the Academy, festivals such as The Berlinale talent, Venice International Film Festival, Rotterdam film festival, international festival of Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, free waves Los Angeles, International Short Film Festival – Clermont- Ferrant, CCCB Barcelona, ​​World Museum Rotterdam, Van Abbe Eindhoven Museum, Villa des arts Casablanca and Rabat…).

He also gives lectures and master classes on current events in media art in the Arab world and initiated and produced several projects around Arab stereotypes in the West. Taleb contributed to the curation of several projects around the world that contribute to the circulation of works from Arab and North African countries in different (international) video and film, diversifying the «Western perspective» on art from the Arab world and familiarizing to the West with Arab artists.

He lives and works in Germany.