Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki made Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2020 off their improbably delightful pandemic-set 2 Lizards, a viral web series in which the filmmakers, week by week, transposed the time’s various masking and social distancing rituals into an animal-centric parallel NYC. In our profile, Bennani teased a new work, saying, “There’s something we spontaneously found together in terms of an animation technique and a certain tone that could be developed into another project.” So, in other words, don’t call the duo’s debut feature, Bouchra, any kind of specific follow-up, even though, again, there are animals (the […]
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