The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii

The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii (2023)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2023-01-18
  • Runtime: 0h 58min
  • Language: English
  • Director: Ariela Aïsha Azoulay

Summary

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide landscape the film focuses on the destruction of the Jewish Muslim world that existed in North Africa, making it imaginable and inhabitable again. Narrated in the first person, by an Algerian Jew and a Palestinian Jew, the film refuses imperial histories of those places. Objects held captive in museums and archives outside of the places from where they were looted are only the visible tip of the iceberg of the mass colonial plunder of Africa. The film explores the substantial wealth accumulated through the extraction of raw materials, labour, knowledge and skills, including the “visual wealth” attained by putting people in front of the colonisers’ cameras.

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Camera Adel Ben Bella Camera Operator
Directing Ariela Aïsha Azoulay Director
Editing Juna Suleiman Editor
Camera Bona Manga Bell Director of Photography
Crew Ariela Aïsha Azoulay Script
Sound Nadia Ammour Music
Sound Ziad Fayed Sound Editor
Production Eyal Vexler Producer

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