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Sarra Ryma is a queer Algerian filmmaker and activist based in Paris. Her work is dedicated to making visible what we can’t see.
Sarra Ryma is a queer Algerian filmmaker and activist based in Paris. Her work is dedicated to making visible what we can’t see and questioning what we do see. Passionate about the themes of intersectionality, migration, love, vulnerability, solitude, restlessness of youth, and Arab melancholy, her visual landscapes are colorful, raw, tender, and subversive – in the spirit of John Waters, Martin Parr and Albert Camus.
Her films include: The King with No Crown (2017), a short documentary centered around the underground drag queen scene in Paris and Bad Gender (2018), a short experimental film invited to be screened at the Queer Biennial of Los Angeles.
Sarra is drawn to the dichotomy between the private and the public body, particularly the representation of marginalized or invisible bodies, in both film and the queer community.
During her brief time in New York in 2018, she participated the queer art party “Ladies Life Draw” (a womxn life drawing party and community event for cis and trans women, and non-binary people). Upon returning to Paris, she founded a sister event, Hammam, in 2019, an art party including live drawing, book readings,
music and film screenings. She made the music video for “Même si” (by Part Time Friends, 2020), is a coming-of-age dyke story of first love, adolescent ennui,
friendship, and virility set against the background of rural France.
Her most recent work,“The Wilaya of Roots,” is a short fashion video for the Algerian brand atlalfromghalbi, exploring the pluralities of her cultures, her North
African roots and pictorial tradition with modern poses and attitudes, wherein beauty goes beyond the codes of gender, sexual orientation, religion or origins. It was short listed for the Milan Fashion Film, London Fashion Film Festival and Berlin Fashion Film Festival
In 2020 she co-founded Etats de Corps, a space for reflection and curation around corporality, a mobile territory where we can seek out, play, transmit, and
transcend the limitations and inhibitions creating violence and shame around our physical presence. A place for deconstruction and healing. A representative subjectivity of a body in the making, an expression of the love we give to ourselves, the Other, and others.