Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

Using the life of Hank Williams to explore perceptions of addiction and its impact on the people closest to it.

I originally met Sixtus Petraeus at Sunrise Retirement Home in January 2007. He died June 19, 2008. This video diary serves as an ode to my relationship with Sixtus as well as to a project that wasn’t to be.

An encounter with Ho Chi Minh’s personal photographer who recalls secretly traveling the jungles with Ho Chi Minh and, with great emotion, the day that the Vietnamese flag flew from the U.S. embassy.

Named after Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever, this multipart video utilizes archival footage of Viet Nam under French colonialism as a way to consider postcolonial subjectivity, sentimentality and nostalgia.

Mecca was already a major pilgrim destination before the birth of Islam as 360 statues representing various idols were gathered in the sanctuary of the Kaaba. The most important one was Hubal, one of the main pre-Islamic gods. A Film Far Beyond a God traces the origins of the conflicts that continue to afflict us today. It draws upon three main motifs: the angst, the travel and the desert. With this experimental documentary Noureddine films a knowingly hidden past in order to help us decipher the present.