Faten RIDENE, PhD

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Higher Instituteof Applied Studies In Humanities El kef, University of Jendouba, Tunisia
University of Jendouba Tunisia

Faten RIDENE, PhD


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Dr. Faten Ridene is an Associate Professor at the University of Jendouba (Tunisia) and a leading researcher in cinema and audiovisual heritage. Her academic trajectory is built around the duality between cinema and cultural heritage, examining how film functions simultaneously as an artistic language and as a means of documenting, preserving, and reinterpreting tangible and intangible heritage. She has published extensively on the role of cinema in cultural memory, identity construction, and heritage valorization, with a focus on the Maghreb and Mediterranean contexts.
Her recent research integrates artificial intelligence as a methodological and creative tool, particularly in the fields of animation and immersive audiovisual experiences, to enhance the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage. By linking film heritage, cultural heritage, animation, and AI-driven tools, Dr. Ridene positions her work at the crossroads of humanities and technology, fostering innovation in educ

EDUCATION

PhD in Audiovisual and Film Studies

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Multidisciplinary, Cultural Studies

FUTURE PROJECTS

Call for papers – IEEE ICICCS 2026-Special Session Tabarka, Tunisia | March 26–29, 2026 https://iciccs.ieee.tn/special-sessions/#1760773983420-0a7b2431-0704 Title of the Session AI-Driven Animation

This Special Session explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), animation technologies, and the valorization of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. As AI reshapes creative industries, it provides unprecedented opportunities for reconstructing, interpreting, and disseminating cultural assets through intelligent animation systems. The session focuses on how AI can support the re-creation of historical sites and monuments, the digital simulation of intangible practices (oral traditions, music, rituals, legends), and the automation of creative pipelines in animation for heritage storytelling. Beyond technical aspects, the session also addresses key issues of authenticity, ethics, accessibility, and inclusivity in the representation of cultural heritage. Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and artists, the session emphasizes interdisciplinary collaborations between computer science, humanities, and visual arts, highlighting projects that merge rigorous compu


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Scopus Publications

  • Fiction Movies as a Means of Culinary Heritage’s Safeguarding and Research Referencing: Cases of Couscous Illustration in Tunisian Cinema
    Faten Ridene
    Cinej Cinema Journal, 2024
    Couscous is a staple dish that became recognized and registered as an immaterial cultural heritage by UNESCO, simultaneously for Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania (UNESCO, Knowledge, know-how and practices pertaining to the production and consumption of couscous, 2020). It represents a mixture of love, heritage, and innovation, which links identity, originality, and modernization. The dish is eligible for two of the five broad domains in which intangible cultural heritage is manifested: social practices, rituals, and festive events. Once a fiction film represents this gastronomic heritage, it reflects the filmmaker's culture and identity during its international distribution. This study aims to compare the couscous dish’s illustrations in Tunisian fiction films such as Halfaouine, Under the Rain of Autumn, and The Secret of the Grain; to prove how fiction movies be considered as an identity card for any filmmaker’s homeland by reflecting the culinary cultural heritage of their homeland, or even a tourism promotion for his nation; and most of all to evince that a fiction movie could become a reference for researchers, in tandem with scientific articles and books.
  • The Black magic: An aesthetic analysis of its illustration in the sociohorteur film: Dachra
    Faten Ridene
    Cinej Cinema Journal, 2022
    Throughout the history of the humanity, and not withstanding of the humankind; the black magic has always been, and is still, an ugly and frightening human folklore in many cultures, whatever would be their religions and beliefs ; and from which, they are still suffering until nowadays, due to its distinction with mysterious and suspicious practices that have been imprinted in the identity of mankind, as a point of contention that transcends different sects and races. Discussing such issue is deeply hated by most of the populations, due to the huge rate of horror and frightens it may push the interlocutors to feel: what if such an internationally suffering from problematic is treated through a motion picture? Would its receiving and comprehension be better and easier? And how would a horror movie be a film d’auteur, horror and social one at the same time? Will there be a difference in the way of receiving it by the audience? And would the fact of being predecessor and identificatory at the same time, positively influence its distribution? We will try to answer all those questions through our article that we baptise: The Black magic: an intangible cultural heritage in defiance of the human will-An aesthetic and analytical lecture of its illustration in the sociohorteur movie: Dachra made by Abdelhamid Bouchnak

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Embodied Algorithms: Exploring the Intersection of Bodily Articulation, Puppet Animation, and Artificial Intelligence
    I Samet, F Ridene, MS Arous, M Saidane
    2026 IEEE International Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent … , 2026
    2026
  • From Pain to Poetics: Suffering as a Generative Force in AI-Assisted Award-Winning Cinematic Creation
    F Ridene, I Samet
    2026 IEEE International Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent … , 2026
    2026
  • New Trend of Violence Animation Reflected to Kids through Manga Series
    F RIDENE
    International Scientific Conference University Batna1 Algeria 1, 2 , 2025
    2025
  • سيرة الرّاحلة حبيبة مسيكة ومراوحتها بين الفنون: إشراقةٌ، فتوهّجٌ، فسكون ‎
    ريدان, فاتن, الصامت, إيمان ‎
    مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية 21 (2), 127-141 , 2024 ‎
    2024
  • Fiction Movies as a Means of Culinary Heritage’s Safeguarding and Research Referencing: Cases of Couscous Illustration in Tunisian Cinema
    F Ridene
    CINEJ Cinema Journal 12 (2), 288-317 , 2024
    2024
  • Animation in Africa and Arab World [ISBN: 978-3-68929-107-5], https://d-nb.info/1351361910
    F RIDENE, M BEN AYAD, T Alrimawi, M GHAZALA, B SAWADOGO, ...
    Faten RIDENE , 2024
    2024
  • Le Centre Démocratique Arabe basé à Berlin-Allemagne, a le plaisir de lancer un appel à contributions pour la conférence internationale Hybride portant sur
    DELAEN L’ART
    2024
  • حفظ الأرشيف السّينمائي كتراث وطني وهويّة ثقافيّة، الواقع والآفاق ‎
    F Ridene
    Jordan Journal of the Arts, 313-324 , 2024
    2024
  • الكسكسي وتمثّلاته العرقيّة عبر الأشرطة السّينمائيّة: من حفظ للتراث الثقافي اللامادّي إلى لعب دور حملة سياحيّة ‎
    أ.دة فاتن ريدان ‎
    النص 11 (1), 170-199 , 2024 ‎
    2024
  • Territoires, identités et Mobilités dans l’espace euro-méditerranéen Tabarka: 26-27-28 Juin 2024 ISEAH Kef-Université de Jendouba
    APDF RIDENE
    2024
  • Edition DAC, 22/06/2024 Mejda Achour & Asma Manai.
    DA Center
    2024
  • La famille Samama Pionniers du cinéma Tunisien DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11261.58084 -- ISBN: 978-977-8769-06-7 March 2024 Edition: 1Publisher: اسكرايب للنشر والتوزيع-جمهورية مصر …‎
    F RIDENE
    2024
  • Oscillation des films de fiction entre visions artistiques et références ethnographiques Etude de cas du cinéma Tunisien-DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35574.98889 LicenseCC BY-NC 4.0
    F RIDENE
    Conférence internationale: Mondes Anthropologiques dans les arts de l … , 2023
    2023
  • Masterclass: Cinéma et Patrimoine-Visions et Enjeux
    F RIDENE
    Masterclass-Festival FCKef , 2023
    2023
  • حفظ الأرشيف السينمائي في الدّول العربيّة الواقع والآفاق ‎
    فاتن محمد ريدان ‎
    المؤتمر العلمي الدولي لعلوم التحقيق والتصنيف وأرشفة المخطوطات والدراسات … , 2023 ‎
    2023
  • La recherche scientifique en patrimoine cinématographique en Tunisie : l’état des lieux et les recours possibles
    F RIDENE
    International Journal of cultural linguistic and artistic studies 7 (27 … , 2023
    2023
  • The transition to the immersive didactics
    F Ridene, A CHamseddine
    https://democraticac.de/?p=87269 1, 305 , 2023
    2023
  • Harga! Quando una serie tv diventa una compagna di sensibilizzazione contro l’immigrazione illegale: realtà e prospettive
    F Ridene
    RIDILCA 1 (2), 100-120 , 2022
    2022
  • La réincarnation d’un ‘Merteur‎’dans chaque personnage qu’il interprète Convergences et Divergences entre les rôles joués par Fathi Haddaoui et Ghanem Zrelli
    F Ridene
    مجلة هيرودوت للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية 6 (4), 354-363 , 2022 ‎
    2022
  • The Black magic: An aesthetic analysis of its illustration in the sociohorteur film: Dachra
    F Ridene
    CINEJ Cinema Journal 10 (1), 124-149 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 1

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • De la distribution commerciale dans la valorisation des films tunisiens en Tunisie et en Europe: regards croisés
    P Caillé
    Images et réceptions croisées entre l'Algérie et la France , 2020
    2020.0
    Citations: 6
  • Quand «Dachra» oscille entre coin de magie noire et titre de film horteur lecture esthétique et analytique
    F RIDENE
    Horizons Cinéma-- آفاق سينمائية 7 (1), 537-559 , 2020 ‎
    2020.0
    Citations: 3
  • Dachra entre horreur et rituels hérités malgré nous
    A Bouchnak
    F. RIDENE , 2018
    2018.0
    Citations: 3
  • Le patrimoine dans les films de salma baccar
    S Baccar
    F. Ridene, Intervieweur) Tunis , 2017
    2017.0
    Citations: 3
  • Fellini: entre Mythes et Réalités
    F Ridene
    M. Falleh, Éd , 2016
    2016.0
    Citations: 3
  • horreur et étalonnage: une merveilleuse adéquation
    H Ksontini
    F. RIDENE, Intervieweur) Faten Ridene. Facebook, Tunis , 2019
    2019.0
    Citations: 2
  • Les choix du DOP en faveur du rythme terrifiant de Dachra
    H Nechi
    F. Ridène, Intervieweur) Facebook , 2018
    2018.0
    Citations: 2
  • Musique et Horreur: une recherche
    R Hmaoui
    Faten Ridene. Facebook, Tunis , 2018
    2018.0
    Citations: 2
  • Conception et développement d’un site web de e-commerce pour le compte de LSAT_Nokia
    A RAISSI
    Université Virtuelle de Tunis , 2013
    2013.0
    Citations: 2
  • The Black magic: An aesthetic analysis of its illustration in the sociohorteur film: Dachra
    F Ridene
    CINEJ Cinema Journal 10 (1), 124-149 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 1
  • Masterpieces of Nouri Bouzid: Between Conditioned Advent and Censorship's Extinction
    FR RAISSI
    International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies IJHCS 2 (2) , 2015
    2015.0
    Citations: 1
  • Authentification dans les Réseaux Wifi par le protocole radius
    F RIDENE, A RAISSI
    Université Virtuelle de Tunis , 2011
    2011.0
    Citations: 1
  • ANIMATION IN AFRICA AND THE ARAB WORLD
    APDF RIDENE, ADMBEN AYED
    Citations: 1
  • Embodied Algorithms: Exploring the Intersection of Bodily Articulation, Puppet Animation, and Artificial Intelligence
    I Samet, F Ridene, MS Arous, M Saidane
    2026 IEEE International Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent … , 2026
    2026.0
  • From Pain to Poetics: Suffering as a Generative Force in AI-Assisted Award-Winning Cinematic Creation
    F Ridene, I Samet
    2026 IEEE International Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent … , 2026
    2026.0
  • New Trend of Violence Animation Reflected to Kids through Manga Series
    F RIDENE
    International Scientific Conference University Batna1 Algeria 1, 2 , 2025
    2025.0
  • سيرة الرّاحلة حبيبة مسيكة ومراوحتها بين الفنون: إشراقةٌ، فتوهّجٌ، فسكون ‎
    ريدان, فاتن, الصامت, إيمان ‎
    مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية 21 (2), 127-141 , 2024 ‎
    2024.0
  • Fiction Movies as a Means of Culinary Heritage’s Safeguarding and Research Referencing: Cases of Couscous Illustration in Tunisian Cinema
    F Ridene
    CINEJ Cinema Journal 12 (2), 288-317 , 2024
    2024.0
  • Animation in Africa and Arab World [ISBN: 978-3-68929-107-5], https://d-nb.info/1351361910
    F RIDENE, M BEN AYAD, T Alrimawi, M GHAZALA, B SAWADOGO, ...
    Faten RIDENE , 2024
    2024.0
  • Le Centre Démocratique Arabe basé à Berlin-Allemagne, a le plaisir de lancer un appel à contributions pour la conférence internationale Hybride portant sur
    DELAEN L’ART
    2024.0