La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli

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La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli
الزردة واغلني النسيان
Directed byAssia Djebar
Written byMalek Alloula
Edited byNichole Schlemmer
Music byAhmed Essyad
Production
company
Radiodiffusion Télévision Algérienne (RTA)
Release date
  • 1982 (1982)
Running time
59 minutes
Country Algeria
LanguagesArabic, French

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. [1] [2] [3] [4] The film was one of two documentary films directed by Djebar [5] during her decade-long hiatus from writing, [6] [7] in collaboration with poet Malek Alloula and Moroccan composer Ahmed Essyad. [8] [9] It would go on to win the prize for Best Historical Film at the 1983 Berlin International Film Festival. [10] [11] The original reels have disappeared, with the only remaining copy restored and digitized by the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin. [12]

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Using archival photographs and film footage shot between 1912 and 1942 in the colonial Maghreb, [13] Djebar composes an experimental film essay in which the soundtrack reveals what the images cannot express alone. [14] [15] [16] The film becomes a historical account that gives life to the forgotten ceremonies (such as the Zerda festival) and repressed lifestyles of indigenous Algerians, while simultaneously questioning the influence of their colonial context on the representations they portray. [17] [18] [19]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Films | Africultures : Zerda et les chants de l'oubli (La)". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. ↑ "Watch La zerda et les chants de l'oubli | MoMA Virtual Cinema Streaming | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  4. ↑ Martin, Florence (2011). Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-22341-8.
  5. ↑ Vogl, Mary B. (2003). Picturing the Maghreb: Literature, Photography, (re)presentation. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-0-7425-1546-8.
  6. ↑ Shafik, Viola (2007). Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN   978-977-416-065-3.
  7. ↑ Kelly, Debra (2005). Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool University Press. ISBN   978-0-85323-659-7.
  8. ↑ "The Essay Film Festival" . Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  9. ↑ LEFFEST. "La Zerda ou Les Chants de L'Oubli / Films // LEFFEST'21 - Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival - 10 to 21 November 2021". LEFFEST'21 - Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival - 10 to 21 November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  10. ↑ Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (2014-03-11). "La Zerda et les chants de l'oubli". HKW. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  11. ↑ "La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli (Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting)". Wallach Art Gallery | Columbia University. 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  12. ↑ "Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V." films.arsenal-berlin.de. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  13. ↑ Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN   978-977-424-943-3.
  14. ↑ Appiah, Anthony; Gates (Jr.), Henry Louis (2010). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-533770-9.
  15. ↑ Toman, Cheryl (2007). On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies. Summa Publications, Inc. ISBN   978-1-883479-53-4.
  16. ↑ Donadey, Anne (2017-06-01). Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar. Modern Language Association. ISBN   978-1-60329-297-9.
  17. ↑ Khanna, Ranjana (2008). Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present. Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-0-8047-5261-9.
  18. ↑ Harrow, Kenneth W. (1997). With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema. Rodopi. ISBN   978-90-420-0143-5.
  19. ↑ Murray, Jenny (2008). Remembering the (post)colonial Self: Memory and Identity in the Novels of Assia Djebar. Peter Lang. ISBN   978-3-03911-367-5.
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