The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

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Foreign Title: La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli
Date: January 01, 1982 to December 31, 1982
Dates Note: 1982
Country of Origin: Algeria
Place of Origin: Algeria
Languages: French , Arabic
Color: B&W/Color
Silent: No
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History
Description: 

Celebrated feminist Algerian novelist and filmmaker Djebar (1936–2015, a.k.a. Fatima-Zohra Imalayen) revisits the colonization of the Maghreb in this experimental work. Drawn from French newsreels from 1912–42, the film employs montage to search for the truth and reveal the resistance behind the mask across this thirty-year period, when the subjugated people were condemned to silence. The soundtrack brings together multivocal chants and avant-garde music to form a furious swan song to colonial violence.

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