The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

La Zerda ou les chants de l’oubli

Assia Djebar

In La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli, Algerian writer Assia Djebar revisits the colonialisation of the Maghreb using material from French newsreels. The film employs montage to search for the truth in these ‘images of a killing gaze’, a truth which they pointedly do not show: the ‘resistance behind the mask’. The soundtrack brings together multivocal chants and experimental music to form a furious swan song to colonial violence.

Sessions

09 Oct — 11:00 / 82’
Cinema São Jorge Sala 3

Retrospective The Colonial Question

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One Screening Only

The Women

Ahmed Lallem