Kempinski, 2010

Neïl Beloufa¿s film was shot in Mopti, Mali. The genre of the video is defined as a "science-fiction documentary". The statements of the protagonists are made more abstract through a special atmosphere created by night-time shooting and special lighting. Asked about their hopes and ideas for the future, the inhabitants of Mopti describe the future as if it were the present day. The film is projected within a spatial framework, in a setting made from inexpensive materials by the artist.

Neïl Beloufa 1985, Paris. Algerian and French. Lives and works in Paris studied at the Beaux Arts and the Art decoratifs de Paris, at Cooper Union in New York and at CalArts in Valencia.
By unabashedly mixing objects pieced together in his studio, with cinematographic quality videos, which bring together shelves, fans, tools, sculptures or furniture¿things that "function" right before our eyes and echo one another. Neïl Beloufa produce a chaotic universe, where what is incidental becomes a full-fledged subject, and where these subjects are as likely to meet as two submarines or two satellites¿ which seems to happen rather often these days. Works has been shown including 12th Ricard prize, Paris ; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn; Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel-Aviv, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Prague. Solo shows in Galerie Kai middendorf, Franckfurt, Galerie François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Galerie LHK, paris ; Whitebox, NY.