DJOUHRA ABOUDA AND ALAIN BONNAMY RETROSPECTIVE

— ALI AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES [ALI IN WONDERLAND] (1975), 59 MIN.

— ALGÉRIE COULEURS (1972), 16 MIN.

— CINÉ-CITÉ (1974), 15 MIN.

The films produced by Djouhra Abouda and Alain Bonnamy pushed the purely formal boundaries of experimental cinema in a combination of avant-garde aesthetics and political activism. Working in the cinema department of the Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes in Paris, Abouda and Bonnamy made two experimental short films Algérie Couleurs (1972) and Ciné-Cité (1974) and a feature film, Ali au pays des merveilles (1975).

Born in Algeria in 1949, Djouhra Abouda arrived in France with her family in 1956. She founded the feminist protest band Djurdjura in the late 1970s and began to pursue a solo music career in 2002. Alain Bonnamy, born in 1947, is an architect and photographer.

ALGERIA/FRANCE, DCP, ~90 MIN.

PLAYING AS PART OF MIZNA FILM SERIES