Small Paths - Complex Stories
Panoramas and micro-perspectives - Epic and rhythmicised time
Films and talks will be translated into German
Panorama pris a bord d’un avion
Archives de la planète, France 1922, 1 min, silent
A sight-seeing flight over Casablanca.
6 et 12
R: Abdelmajid Rechiche / Mohammed Tazi / Ahmed Bouanani, Morocco 1968, 20 min, 35 mm, French OV
The ragged periphery to the regulated order of the modern metropolis of Casablanca. It is certainly not the poverty of the Bidonvilles, which it would have been inopportune to show in any case – just tiny cracks in an oppressive, routinised normality.
Carnet d’un arpenteur, Les Minguettes, Juillet-Août 2006
R: Michel Ganozzi / Christophe Pornon / Jérome Leguay / Natacha Flandin / Raphaël Kuntz, France 2006, 44 min, French OV
A surveyor describes micro-perspectives taken from everyday life in the Les Minguettes residential complex: "Our celebrations are like riots and our uprisings are like celebrations. It’s been like that for centuries."
Les Actualités Marocaines 19.6.1958
Morocco 1958, 1 min, French OV
Newsreel on the fire at the Bidonville Derb Djedid in Casablanca and on the official opening of new dwellings.
Le Rocher
R: Larbi Benchekroun, Morocco 1958, 11 min, 35 mm, French OV
Postcolonial building ‘for the masses’ by the masses. On the site of the burned-down Bidonville, a new settlement is erected thanks to the united strength of the masses. An Aufbau-Film.
