1994, Rabat (MA).

Lives and works between Rabat (MA) and Santa Cruz, California (US).

Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher who explores memory, performance, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Her work is experiential and grows through wandering and listening to bodies and spaces. It is rooted in our histories, how our bodies are bound together and to lands and oceans through rituals, and how we take care. Her experimentations expand through conversations with friends, whether they are collaborating on a project or providing support for each other.

Yasmine has a BA in Film and Mathematics from Columbia University, in New York (US) and an MA from the Experimental Programme in Political Arts (SPEAP) at Sciences Po, Paris (FR) .

She is pursuing a critical praxis PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz (US), researching the intersection of decolonial moving-image making, rituals, and archives.