My Work
Vogue Arabia March 2020
2020
Vogue Arabia March 2020 issue celebrating their third birthday with 3 iconic middle eastern legends. This film is the making of the Pop Arabia series shooting by Hassan Hajjaj.
Filmed & edited by me.
Starring : Assala Nasri, Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Yousra & the Mâalam Marouane Lbahja with band.
Team production:
Art accomplice Ebon Heath
Photograph assistant Hasna El Ouarga
Style katie Trotter & Lisa Jarvis
Hair stylist Sadek Lardjane
MUA Jo Frost
Producer Laura Prior
Vogue Arabia editor in chief Manuel Arnaut
Back In Town
2019
Back in Town is taken from "Suzume" LP, released 12th of April 2019.
Music, production and pocket trumpet by J.Lamotta Suzume
Bass by Martin Bhul
Rhodes piano by Doron Segal
Drums and bongos by Ra'fat Muhammad
Recorded at Jazzanova Studio, Berlin by Axel Reminder & Jose Victor Torelli
Mix by Q3000
Master by Roskow Kretschmannv
Directed by Noria Chaal
Assistant film: Mélika Sghaier
Starring: Yazid El Alaoui
Translated by Zakaria Bendriouich
The Master Musicians Of Joujouka
2019
Amid the rolling hills of Northern Morocco, a secluded village is home to the original music and current members of The Master Musicians of Joujouka. It is here in Joujouka, that the Attar family preserves one of the oldest known musical traditions on the planet.
In the late 60's Brian Jones, from The Rolling Stones, visited and consequently paid tribute to the sounds he encountered in Joujouka. In 1968 he recorded an album with The Masters called ‘Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka’ exposing a wider audience to the enchanting music for the first time. This year marks the 50 year anniversary of this visionary moment of cross-cultural collaboration.
MATERIAL INSANITY
2019
Directed by Noria Chaal
The territory determines what is close and what is far away. It is a marker of reduced margins between us and what is familiar to us.” Zainab Andalibe
For MACAAL’s exhibition ‘Material Insanity’ Andalibe is creating a site specific sculpture installation entitled ‘La ligne, cartographie d’une distance’ comprised of brass plate and brass wire.
To discover fully soon at the museum, from 26 February to 15 August 2019.
African Crossroad - The 4th Industrial Revolution
2019
African Crossroads is a community of future-oriented African thinkers and doers which meets annually to exchange ideas and critically reflect on the most cutting-edge developments anchored in African intellectual and technological traditions.
Through design exhibitions, invigorating workshops, art installations and more, this three-day event will spark deep discussion about the latest inventions and innovations in science, art, and technology.
Directed by Noria Chaal
Music : Kawuku Sound - owino market
BBC Africa: All aboard Morocco's high-speed train
2017
2017
Anderson Paak. & The Free National - We Love Green Festival
2017
BIO
Noria Chaal (1991) graduated from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a degree in Technic and Artistic Practices of the Cinema Editing. Since then, her portfolio has expanded rapidly from music video clips to research films. After her internship in Berlin brought her in touch with the music industry, Noria has been shooting, directing, writing and editing music videos for various cultural actors. But it wasn't until the first time she went to Morocco to shoot film by herself for a video shoot of German rapper MC René, when she truly became aware of all the stories there were to tell.
In her work, Noria explores topics like cultural equality, the local musical identity, and questions the male/female relationship in the public space. As a young female cultural entrepreneur from the diaspora, Noria immerses herself in local communities by working together with both art institutions and creative individuals. In doing so, she wishes to highlight the emerging scene of alternative music and push the new wave of individual contemporary thinkers. By combining artists' specific visions with her own, Noria translates stories in a way that reaches anyone. Throughout the years, she's built up a broad and ever-growing network of creatives through filming, narrative-building, and directing to name a few, making her the all-around filmmaker she is today. In the future, she hopes to continue supporting the emerging scene of the African continent and capture its growth into maturity
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