Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams

06/02/2012

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1hr 40min

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Documentary

STORY

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody resistance, and celebrate those who work to liberate others. Boutadjine creates his portraits of Third World artists such as Miriam Makeba, and Algerian figures such as Assia Djebar from pieces of paper torn from high end fashion magazines and other, glossy, glitzy publications. Using this material is as much an act of rejecting bourgeois standards, which are often anti-North African in France, as much as elevating these figures and making them the social and visual standard against which we should judge ourselves, not the runway models of Chanel.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Mustapha Boutadjine
  • Mahmoud Darwish
  • Angela Davis
  • Tommie Smith
  • Miriam Makeba

    Director

  • Hamid Benamra

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Nunfilm

    Production Countries

  • Algeria
  • France

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French