Images of Tunisia
Synopsis
Images de Tunisie (2025) reclaims and recontextualizes archival footage from 1940s newsreels produced by Les Actualités Françaises, and combines it with new footage filmed at the same vernacular architecture sites in the Berber villages of southern Tunisia, including Matmata, Douiret, and Tameghza.
These 1940s black-and-white documentaries were created to serve French propaganda in and about the colonized countries of North Africa, including Tunisia. Director Ben Slimane explains: the title of the film comes from the ethnographic documentary filmed by Georges Barrois, Images de Tunisie (1946), which interested me because of its ability to create images and shape narratives. I went back to the sites presented in the archive films to reappropriate the scenes from a personal point of view, using a Super 8 hand-held camera to explore the ruined sites.
Schedule
26 November 2025, 15:15 WIB
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Credits
Younès Ben Slimane
Younes Ben Slimane (1992) is a tunisian filmmaker and architect. He has completed post-graduates studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR), where he studied in the classes of Ben Russell.
