Selim Harbi

  • Selim Harbi
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Film director, Photographer, Screenwriter, Multimedia artist
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, Photo

Tunisian transmedia storyteller, director, and photographer.

Selim HARBI is a transmedia storyteller, film director and photographer.

He is known for "The sky over there" (2012) and "Call me neguinho" (2019).

Selim HARBI is a transmedia storyteller, director, and photographer, based in Berlin. As a world connector, passionate traveler, he loves to redefine things. His work is focused on contemporary African, diasporas and global mobility issues, with a special flair for tech-trends and experimentation, he is designing with new media tools cutting-edge projects, always looking for impact and new challenges.

Transmedia storyteller, director, TEDx speaker, and visual consultant. Graduated Bachelor of Art in Audiovisual Media at Beuth University of applied sciences in Berlin. I worked as assistant director on THE ENEMY a journalistic VR-Experience around war and empathy. Multimedia grantee of World Press Photo, focused on contemporary African and diaspora issues, with a special fair for tech-trends and experimentation. I am developing and designing innovative mixed-media concepts and cutting-edge projects. Afroroutes my first VR experience. More: www.selimharbi.com

Freelance documentary Photographer & Cameraman, born and raised in Tunis (1982), i studied Photography & Audiovisual Media at BHT in Berlin. Trying to really"See" what's around me, my work is oriented towards communities and contemporary socio-political issues.

" My photography is a journey from my invisible world, to another external visible one "

MY STORY
Harbi: Warrior in Arabic, Born and raised in a country that gave its ancestral name "Ifriquiya", to the rest of the African continent, Tunisia: my first world. This utopian space between two fluid entities: the Sahara and the Mediterranean sea, at the edge of two distant worlds, each one mirroring a distorted representation of the other. Traveling became slowly a necessity, physically first, then mentally and spiritually through books and art, broadening and expanding my conscience, and inviting it to plural and universal dimension, At the age of twenty-two I jumped out this space, and started my journey, responding to a deep burning call: the discovery of itself, the world, the unknown. Heading north first, Berlin: another key-point of disparity, where I could settle and prepare my self for a bigger jump: the south, reconnecting with my deep Africanity and roots, Taking a critical distance from my matrix-point where I grew up, embracing the world as home, make me realize what matters the most: human conditions, the urge to rehabilitate our global reason and root a new narrative. I identify my self as a world connector. Embedding my ancestral nomadic North-African spirit, today I am proudly hunting the traces of beauty, of a world that still can be repaired.

Source:
www.fairplanet.org/author/selim-harbi/
www.selimharbi.com

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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