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

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

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

Durée :

0h 58min

Date de sortie :

January 2023

Réalisé par : Ariela Aïsha Azoulay

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.