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Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (La zerda et Les chants de l'oubli)

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  • Algeria
  • 1982
  • · 59m

Director Assia Djebar
Genre Drama, Documentary

For Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting, Assia Djebar and her co-author Malek Alloula spent half a year in the Pathé and Gaumont film archives watching footage shot by French documentary filmmakers between 1912 and 1942. Their montage sifts through these “images of a deadly gaze” for the reality they conspicuously elide, for the resistance that has retreated “behind the mask”. The soundtrack blends together poetry, recitations, and experimental music into a polyphonic swan song to colonial violence.

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