She and the filmmaker Orian Barki, who were spending lockdown together between their Brooklyn apartments, conceived a series of short Instagram videos about the changes they were witnessing. But the first week of quarantine made her restless, and she wanted to create something immediate and raw that captured the way she was feeling. An animator and artist whose work sits at the intersection of homemade YouTube reality shows, hand-drawn cartoons and documentary film, Bennani was used to staying inside, funneling the world through her computer. IN MARCH 2020, when Covid-19 was ripping through New York and the city locked down, Meriem Bennani felt an impulse to make a video.
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