Les images manquantes
The issue of the “missing picture”, tackled by the French-Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, can be applied to most dictatorships. This paper addresses the history of Moroccan documentary through this issue, taking as a compass the question of the representation of political repression in the 1980s. Af...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/14617 |
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| Summary: | The issue of the “missing picture”, tackled by the French-Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, can be applied to most dictatorships. This paper addresses the history of Moroccan documentary through this issue, taking as a compass the question of the representation of political repression in the 1980s. After re-reading “from behind” a little-too-much-propaganda documentary, A day in Morocco by Mohamed Laâlioui (1982), we shall describe how, against this kind of too-visible occultation of reality by Moroccan official cinema, French media have obsessively looked for the “missing pictures” of political repression in Morocco, in particular the TV magazine Résistances by Bernard Langlois. Nowadays, the need to compensate for the lack of images of this period of Moroccan history constitutes an actual basis of research and creation for contemporary filmmakers such as Ali Essafi, Leila Kilani or Hicham Lasri. |
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| ISSN: | 0997-1327 2105-2271 |