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Mute Memory: Ahmed Bouanani’s Morocco

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

Omar Berrada speaks about the reclusive auteur Ahmed Bouanani. From the website of La Maison Française: L’hôpital is a cult classic of contemporary Moroccan literature. Mirage is widely considered to be one of the most important feature films made in North Africa. Nevertheless, their polymath author, Ahmed Bouanani (1938-2011), died in relative obscurity. He shunned the limelight and, unless friends…

Tinghir-Jerusalem

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Film in French, with English subtitles. To RSVP, please click here. Director Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished. A Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morocco and raised in France, Hachkar would return to Tinghir every summer with his family, but it would be years before he discovered that the town once had a thriving Jewish community.…

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Bouzbir and Résistants by Fatima Mazmouz – Photo Exhibit

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

In Bouzbir, Fatima Mazmouz reappropriates colonial postcards featuring young Moroccan prostitutes in Bousbir, a military district in Casablanca. Exploring how the sexual exploitation of these women was integral to French domination, Mazmouz overlays a digital mosaic of tiny images of vulvas and uteruses. The uteruses symbolize the obscene matrix of colonialism, while the vulvas reflect the articulation of the political and the intimate, at…