Nabil Aniss (Meknès, 1990) is a Moroccan artist working with moving images, exploring the complex relationship between political liberation, insurrection and the transcendental handling of marginalised bodies in the mystical brotherhoods in Morocco, particularly in his home town of Meknès, such as Gnawa, Hmadcha and Issawa.

Aniss whose filmmaking interweaves documentary, poetry, archival found material and his own shot images, which collectively explore the transformative power of sounds, movements, trances, and self-mutilation in shaping marginalised individuals into catalysts for sedition and liberation, awakening exhausted and fragmented diasporic bodies into a collective consciousness primed for political action.

During his fellowship at Scuola Piccola Zattere, he will conceptualize the Moroccan Zaouia as a spatial dispositif of resistance, operating at the intersection of mystical practice and political emancipation, the Zaouia is approached as an inverted monument and performative score, where absence, resonance, and embodied activation produce counter-hegemonic spatialities. 
The project advances a spatial-political ontology wherein marginalised bodies reclaim agency through architectures of veiling, affective transmission, and ephemeral organisation.