Aprs le Maquis / After Resistance, 2005, Film
Video / 3:40 min / German &
French subtitles / colour / Pal /
Algeria / 2005.
This film
is thought to be shown with the drawing LAttente
Two men sit at a table of the bistro in Algier. At the same time scrolls
the story of a young girl, the narrator, joining her mother and the one from
her pretender. Instead of the planed discussion about the marriage, as it was
expected, the two mothers relate about their disarray and evoke their situation
of exiled woman after the independence War of Algeria.
The text is an excerpt of the novel; Les femmes dAlger dans leur
appartement (the women of Algier in their flat) from Assia Djebar. The Novel itself
is inspired from the Eugne Delacroixs painting (with the same title).
The scene is mounted in a black frame to keep the character of a canvas.
