25/06/2012

(Virtual) Summer in Algiers


A new web documentary dedicated to the contemporary Algiers has been lauched yesterday from Paris. It broadcasts documentaries filmed in the Algerian capital, from different points o you, by different filmmakers or just regular citizens, in norder to capture a bit of nowadays Algiers, far from stereotyopes or from the images of the past.

You can see them here, all day long, on this website:

http://www.un-ete-a-alger.com/#/accueil 

The website will show during six weeks different films depicting today's Algiers.


Presentation in French:

"UN ETE A ALGER" est un web documentaire imaginé par Aurélie Charon et Caroline Gillet, avec Yanis Koussim, Lamine Ammar-Khodja, Amina Zoubir, Hassen Ferhani. Narrative/Une chambre à soi / avec le soutien du CNC, dont le lancement a été donné hier, 24 juin 2012.
Co produit par Narrative et Une chambre à soi.

"Loin de l'Alger colonial, loin d'Alger la blanche vue d'ici, on est au coeur du nouvel Alger qui revit : les jeunes portent déjà la révolution dont ils rêvent dans leurs envies, leurs corps et leurs vies. Après le printemps arabe, l'été sera algérien. La parole est à eux", affirment les réalisatrices.

http://www.un-ete-a-alger.com/#/accueil 


More details on the Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/uneteaalger/info 

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It all started with a radio documentary project created for France Inter:
http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-alger-nouvelle-generation

I must adnit it does bring back lost of memories of my two last trip to Algiers, which happened in 2001 and 1992, especially the views from the balconies like in the film "50 contre 1"...

Wherever you are, you can spend the Summer in Algiers, claim the producers... I really wanted to visit Algeria again this year myself, but I still have not been able to. That's a start. And a very beautiful one.

http://www.un-ete-a-alger.com/#/accueil 



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