« The 1002^nd night » is a series of screenings and talks with artists conceived in connection with the exhibition Scheherazade, at night. This last session is an opportunity to discover two teasers, two versions 1 of Phoenix Atala’s current projects: Queer Time V1 , a vocal performance and Défaillance Critique V1, a film-conversation.

Queer Time is a performance during which Phoenix speaks into a microphone, about not introducing himself, physical changes, shifting perspectives, dissonance, queerness, Arabness and non-linear time.

Critical Failure is at once an anticipation film, an unfinished scenario on the representation of queer racialized communities, an editing process, an attempt to invent a new method of making cinema, a series of ethical, aesthetic and practical questions, a sum of obstacles and revelations, a narrative that describes the sensation of discovering oneself different and that this discovery is liberating.

Initially a Sci Fi film, it has fermented, multiplied, developed, expanded like water kefir. It is now a film-conversation, a film-pretext for a multi-generational discussion about our image autonomy, as a queer racialized community; a pretext for the possibility of gathering, to talk, to organize; a pretext for thinking about how we storytell ourselves, why we storytell ourselves and to whom we storytell ourselves. Critical Failure is a symphony, a choral project, in which each member is attuned, not to the tuning fork of a skillset but to the one of similar situation,  forming a disharmony of talents and a harmony of concerns.