Fragments of resistance - A remix mémoire
The planned contribution is a cinematic mash-up that moves between archive material, news images and film scenes - along the themes of structural violence, collective memory and cultural resistance. The starting point is a short film that I first edited in 2023 following the murder of Nahel Merzouk a
17-Year young boy of algerian and moroccan descent who had been shot by a police officer in Nanterre, France.
The film interweaves footage from the Algerian war with news footage of Nahel Merzouk's assassination and the subsequent protests in France. These real images are in dialogue with scenes from the black and white Movie “La Haine” by Matthieu Kassovitz - in particular an iconic scene in which a DJ mixes music over the banlieue. This gesture of mixing is also a formal principle: the images are edited into one another, sounds and statements are superimposed. The soundtrack includes the track Nique la Police - a remix that itself conveys resistance, anger and empowerment.
At the centre are the questions: How does colonial and post-colonial violence inscribe itself into collective memories?
How do anger, loss, fear - and hope - resonate in images, voices and music?
The film is not intended as an analysis, but as an emotional and political montage - an approach to the fragile spaces between fear and hope. It is also a personal way of transforming fear and pain into some form of resistance and hope.