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IMAGES DE TUNISIE reclaims and recontextualizes archival footage from 1940s' newsreels produced by Les Actualités Françaises, and combines it with new footage filmed at the same vernacular architecture sites in the Berber villages of southern Tunisia.
These 1940s' black-and-white documentaries were created to serve French propaganda in and about the colonized countries of North Africa, including Tunisia. Ben Slimane explains: "The title of the film comes from the ethnographic documentary filmed by Georges Barrois, IMAGES DE TUNISIE (1946), which interested me because of its ability to create images and shape narratives. I went back to the sites presented in the archive films to reappropriate the scenes from a personal point of view, using a hand-held camera to explore the ruined sites."
The film functions as a counter-ethnography. Navigating between archive documents and personal images, an interaction unfolds. This interaction becomes the keystone of the film, transforming it into a commentary on the evolution of the medium of cinema, illustrating its ability to redefine narratives.
Younes Ben Slimane is an artist and filmmaker. He completed post-graduate studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR) in 2022. His practice lies at the intersection of cinema, architecture and the visual arts. His film and installation work aims to bring these different media into dialogue in order to unfold their potentialities and limits. His films have been selected for festivals, including the Locarno Film Festival (CH), CPH:DOX (DK), DokuFest (XK).
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