Trances (1981) - (Movie Clip) The Tyrant Sleeps

Trances (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Nass El Ghiwane

Opening sequence, from Casablanca-born director Ahmed El Maanouni’s highly-regarded documentary on Nass El Ghiwane, the band sometimes known as the “Rolling Stones of North Africa,” from the restored print from Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation, Trances, 1981.

Trances (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Hay Mohammedi

Following the opening with concert footage, director Ahmed El Maanouni visits the home turf, a neighborhood in the Casablanca district, of the famed Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane, some focus on the late front-man Larbi Batma (1948-1997), in the documentary Trances, 1981.