Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012)

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody resistance, and celebrate those who work to liberate others. Boutadjine creates his portraits of Third World artists such as Miriam Makeba, and Algerian figures such as Assia Djebar from pieces of paper torn from high end fashion magazines and other, glossy, glitzy publications. Using this material is as much an act of rejecting bourgeois standards, which are often anti-North African in France, as much as elevating these figures and making them the social and visual standard against which we should judge ourselves, not the runway models of Chanel.

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Mustapha Boutadjine
as Self

Mahmoud Darwish
as Self

Angela Davis
as Self

Tommie Smith
as Self

Miriam Makeba
as Self

Salah Teskouk
as Self

Guem
as Self

Aleida Guevara
as Self

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Stephanie Benamra
Producer

Guem
Music

Hamid Benamra
Director

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