LE FORT DES FOUS
synopsis
Using archives from the early scientific expeditions and taming campaigns led by the French colonizers in North Africa, Le Fort de fous follows a community of young nomads and wanderers as they form an imagined utopian society in response to imperialistic rule. Reenactments, improvisations, and interviews are conducted with the inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island and the Prosfygika community in Athens to describe an alternative temporality and autonomous space, reflecting on the transmission and re-appropriation of history and reviving memories as strategies of resistance.
original title: | Le Fort des fous |
country: | Algeria, Greece, France, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar |
sales agent: | Pascale Ramonda Paris |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Narimane Mari |
film run: | 140' |
cast: | Antoine Morin |
cinematography by: | Narimane Mari, Antonin Boischot |
film editing: | Narimane Mari, Corentin Doucet |
music: | Los Cousinos |
producer: | Olivier Boischot, Narimane Mari, Fenia Cossovitsa, Ann Carolin Renninger |
production: | Centrale électrique, Blonde Audiovisual Productions, Joon film, Xenia Film, Allers Retours Films (DZ) |