20fps is a new series for sound and experimental film hosted by 20 Seconds Magazine at Morphine Raum, in Berlin.
The series is conceived as a space for the splicing of experiments in sound, performance art and film, employing unconventional techniques in order to communicate social, political and artistic narratives.

20fps No.1

ONE SEA, 10 SEAS film by Nour Ouayda 42’ | 2019 | AR/EN / sound performance by Nour Sokhon electronics & objects
There are all in all eight tapes dating from 2014 to 2018, each containing footage of the Mediterranean Sea, more precisely a small section of the coast around Beirut. Three women examine the recorded images and sounds, looking for traces of what they call “apparitions.”

HOME MOVIES GAZA film by Basma al-Sharif 24’ | 2013 | AR/EN
Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilization. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether impossible to separate from its political identity.

3350 KM film by Sara Kontar 13’ | 2023 | AR/EN
Father and daughter have been separated by 3,350 kilometres for seven years. He lives in Syria, she lives in exile in Paris. All they have left is to talk on the internet. The daughter records the conversations.

Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker and film programmer. Her films experiment with various forms of fiction making in cinema. She is a member of The Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Mira Adoumier and part of the editorial committee of the Montreal-based online film journal Hors Champ. Between 2018 and 2023, she was the partnerships coordinator then deputy director at Metropolis Cinema Association in Beirut where she managed and developed the Cinematheque Beirut project. She also teaches film programming in Beirut.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her creative practice is centered around exploring different methods of working with artistic research including interview material, field recordings, and recorded material from an organized site-specific intervention. The research is then translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations, and moving image work. “Beirut Birds,” Sokhon’s debut solo album, was released on the record label aural conduct on 16 October 2024. This album was produced with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC.

Basma al-Sharif is a Palestinian artist/filmmaker that explores cyclical political histories and conflicts. In films and installations that move backward and forward in history, between place and non-place, she confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works.

Sara Kontar is a Syrian artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in France since 2016. She holds a Master’s degree in animation cinema from L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD). Before her first documentary “3350 KM” in 2023, she created experimental video works, including “A Wave” in 2020 and “Back-And-Forth” in 2022, which were showcased at Centre Pompidou in 2022, followed by an exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2023. Her work focuses on her Syrian roots and the experience of exile. Sara is the founder of “Al-Ayoun,” a space for visual storytellers in Syria and the diaspora.