Un cinéma palestinien « en mal d’archive »

• Main Author: Laure Fourest
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2012-05-01
• Series: Ateliers d'Anthropologie
• Subjects: archival images; cinema; documentary; filmed testimony; historiography; realism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/9053

Through the analysis of three Palestinian films created in the 2000-2010 period, this article considers filmmakers’ insertion of archival images in their montages: what strategies do they employ and for what purpose? What do archival images add to filmed testimony? How does the use of these images enable participation in the historiographical debate underlying and partly determining the Israel-Palestine conflict? In the Palestinian context, where no official archive institution exists, archives entail particularly salient issues, making their lack truly sore. This generates a multiplicity of cinematographic strategies aiming to challenge this discomfort zone, where the manipulation of the emotional and sensorial qualities of archives can be a means of proving something.