Fecha de lanzamiento

27 Feb, 1983

Tiempo de ejecución

00:57: (HH:MM)

Sinopsis

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” (1977). Powerful poetic essay based on archives, in which Assia Djebar – in collaboration with the poet Malek Alloula and the composer Ahmed Essyad – deconstructs the French colonial propaganda of the Pathé-Gaumont newsreels from 1912 to 1942, to reveal the signs of revolt among the subjugated North African population. Through the reassembly of these propaganda images, Djebar recovers the history of the Zerda ceremonies, suggesting that the power and mysticism of this tradition were obliterated and erased by the predatory voyeurism of the colonial gaze. This very gaze is thus subverted and a hidden tradition of resistance and struggle is revealed, against any exoticizing and orientalist temptation.

Título original

La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli

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Actores

Multitud

Rachid Merabtine

Marie-Hélène Méliès-Lehérissey

Marie-Ange Baratier

Said Genif

Ahmed Essyad

Nicole Schlemmer

Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar

Malek Alloula