The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (1983)
57m
Running Time
February 27, 1983Release Date
The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (1983)
57m
Running Time
February 27, 1983Release Date
Plot.
“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.
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Cast & Crew.
Assia Djebar
Director / Writer
Rachid Merabtine
Cinematography
Marie-Ange Baratier
Editor
Gerard Le Fortiche
Writer
Ahmed Essyad
Music
Nicole Schlemmer
Editor
Marie-Hélène Méliès-Lehérissey
Editor
Said Genif
Sound
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 27, 1983
Original NameLa Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli
StatusReleased
Running Time57m
Genres
Wiki.
La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli (English: The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting) is a 1979 avant-garde experimental documentary film directed by Assia Djebar.
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