An/harkie

Sophie Mendelsohn

An/harkie

Sophie Mendelsohn

“An/harkie” is inscribed in the knot of legal and political contradictions that characterises the moment of the decolonisation of Algeria and its postcolonial extensions. In this context, the life trajectories of those the French government called ‘harkis’ are not limited to this state-produced category, but extend beyond what has been and is still told in the commemorations of the present time. Those who are prepared to listen to what can be said in the gaps in between official sources and lives actually lived may hear other voices and other narratives. They can also find other uses for the archives than those that doom them to maintain memory in the form of oblivion. The project initiated by psychoanalyst Sophie Mendelsohn is part of the search for fragmentary traces from which a counter-narrative can be created that may lead to proposals that might enable us to inhabit history differently.

Infos

Duration: 150 min.
Language: French and English

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Concept & Realisation: Sophie Mendelsohn
Collaborator Concept & Realisation: Guilia Fabbiano
Collaboration & Interviews: Zahia Rahmani, Todd Shepard
Readings: Naledi Majola
Images: Christophe Montacieux

An/harkie was developed in partnership with the Collectif de Pantin.