Part of Focus on Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani

Director: Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, John Michael Boling

2020 / 42min / DCP

A narrative film distilling Bennani and Barki’s eight-episode online series 2 Lizards, a cockeyed comic response to life in New York City in pandemic times starring, yes, two animated anthropomorphized lizards. An aptly surreal reflection of a more than slightly surreal time. Preceded by Culturesport: Rotterdam 95, an animated science fiction web series by Bennani and Barki collaborators John Michael Boling and Jason Coombs, concerning an engineer who proposes to combat rising sea levels by harvesting the dreams of two gabber-loving kids from the titular Dutch city’s hardcore scene… though his true intentions, as it transpires, may lie elsewhere.

2 Lizards (Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, 2020, 23 mins)

Culturesport: Rotterdam 1995 (John Michael Boling, 2019, 19 mins)

Q&A with filmmakers and artists Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, John Michael Boling, and Jason Coombs on Saturday, June 27th