Meriem Bennani
Biography
Meriem Bennani (born 1988) is a Moroccan artist currently based in New York City. Bennani works in video, sculpture, multimedia installation, drawing, and Instagram. She is known for her playful and humorous use of digital technologies such as 3D animation, projection mapping, and motion capture. She often publishes her work on social media such as Instagram and Snapchat, having over thirty-seven-thousand followers on the latter as of July 2020.
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Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Bouchra (voice)
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.