LBB Film Club: Journey Never Ends

“Morocco is about movement. The journey is the experience.” This observation was shared with Supply&Demand director Michael Haussman by Paul Bowles, author of the seminal novel ‘The Sheltering Sky’, more than 25 years ago in Tangier. Now, it opens Michael’s latest short film, ‘Journey Never Ends’.

Michael has crafted music videos for the likes of Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Chemical Brothers, Shakira and Kanye West, as well as campaigns for Levi’s, Diesel, Absolut, Bulgari, BMW, Yves Saint Laurent, and Guinness, but it is his personal, transformative experience of living in Morocco that takes centre stage this time. He was first inspired to broach its borders by Paul’s novel, going to meet him before following his path alone, from Tangier, across the Rif mountains, through Fez, to the Sahara desert. 

Retracing those steps all these years later, his whirlwind love letter brings the country to life in a vibrant collage of its sights, smells, and sounds: sun beating down on sand, fresh mint tea, the call to prayer broadcasting from tall minarets – and most importantly, the energetic array of people that call it home.

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