Archives des invisibles

KADIST presents Archives of the Invisible, a project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Bringing together filmmakers and artists principally from the Mediterranean region (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine) and France, this first instalment, produced on the occasion of the Saison Méditerranée 2026, takes the form of an exhibition presented at KADIST Paris from 10 October 2026 to 9 January 2027, accompanied by a programme of talks, screenings and tours.

A project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

In collaboration with Amélie Galli, head of the Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde for the Centre Pompidou, and Taddeo Reinhardt

With Namir Abdel Messeeh, Mohamad Abdouni, Kamal Aljafari, Ahmed Amer, Danielle Arbid, Cyril Aris, Kader Attia, Nader S. Ayache, Ismaïl Bahri, Mehdi Barsaoui, Éric Baudelaire, Kaouther Ben Hania, Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane, Simone Bitton, Dominique Cabrera, Lana Daher, Alice Diop, Sofia Djama, Nabil Djedouani, Rana Eid, Souad El-Bouhati, Jihan El-Tahri, Mahdi Fleifel, Ahmad Ghossein, Alain Gomis, Tala Hadid, Annemarie Jacir, Bouchra Khalili, Yanis Koussim, Nadine Labaki, Sébastien Lifshitz, Laïla Marrakchi, Rayane Mcirdi, Najwa Najjar, Eliane Raheb, Amal Ramsis, Ghassan Salhab, Jayce Salloum, Elias Sanbar, Céline Sciamma, Zineb Sedira, Lina Soualem, Mohamed Soueid, Rania Stephan, Elia Suleiman, Virgil Vernier, Hady Zaccak, Rebecca Zlotowski.

The idea behind Archives of the Invisible has long accompanied Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. It has been nourished by their attention to what escapes, what remains off-screen, and to missing, buried or forgotten images. The project turns towards the images that artists and filmmakers still carry within them: shots that were filmed but never found their place in a film, yet remain alive in their memory. What becomes of these images, these faces, these landscapes, filmed, loved, then set aside? What might emerge if these images were shared and brought together?

Each artist and filmmaker is invited to unveil unreleased sequences and to accompany them with a testimony. Together, these fragments sketch a sensitive and polyphonic cartography: a living archive, in perpetual construction.

Public programme

Every Saturday at 4pm: guided tour led by the mediation team

Free on registration via Explore Paris

Saturday 7 November, 3pm to 6pm: Ghost Editing: collage and fanzine workshop, visi