The battle over the frame
As Hollywood recycles pro-war propaganda for Gen Z, Youssef Chahine’s ‘Djamila, the Algerian’ reminds us that anti-colonial cinema once turned imperial film language against its makers—and still can.
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Dylan Haworth
Dylan Haworth is a documentary filmmaker and programmer working out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. When he is not working on his own films, he runs the Albuquerque Cinema Club, an anti-imperialist film screening group.
You are not the sun: FESPACO 85′
Forty years ago, African filmmakers and revolutionaries united to reclaim cinema as a weapon for liberation and cultural sovereignty across the continent.