Country: Algeria
Year: 2013
Duration: 61'
Algeria is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its independence: eight fragments of ambiguous and equivocal stories portraying the complex mosaic of its capital, Algiers.
Biography
film director
Lamine Ammar-Khodja
Lamine Ammar-Khodja (Bab Ezzouar, Algeria, 1983) moved to Paris in 2013 to study electronics and computer science, after which he went to Grenoble to study film and documentary filmmaking. After making the shorts How to Reframe an Outlaw by Pulling at a Thread, ’56 South and Algiers Less Than Zero, he debuted in feature films in 2012 with the documentary Ask Your Shadow, which was selected for FID Marseille and received the First Film Prize.
FILMOGRAFIA
Comment recadrer un hors-la-loi en tirant sur un fil (cm, 2010), ’56 SUD (cm, 2010), Alger moins que zéro (cm, 2010), Demande à ton ombre (doc., 2012), Chroniques (2013), Bla cinima (Straight from the Street, doc., 2014).
Declaration
film director
“Algiers is an ambiguous city, the majority of people who live there are white. We call this African city ‘the white.’ We find ambiguity everywhere in the city’s daily life. In the situations where humor raises the alarming level of despair. In the furious desire to live and in the feeling that something is dying. In the loud discussions that flood the streets to say everything and nothing at the same time. In the impression that this talkative city is silent. In those bilingual signs bearing a linguistic ambiguity that can be found in daily life expressions. In the ancient walls of the city center, which give us the impression that we are in a colonial city when we stroll by night and the city is asleep. Even the image of Algiers is ambiguous, unsure whether it came from abroad or if it is endogenous.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, FOTOGRAFIA, MONTAGGIO, SUONO, PRODUTTORE
Lamine Ammar-Khodja
Lamine Ammar-Khodja
