The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii

Synopsis

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide landscape the film focuses on the destruction of the Jewish Muslim world that existed in North Africa, making it imaginable and inhabitable again. Narrated in the first person, by an Algerian Jew and a Palestinian Jew, the film refuses imperial histories of those places. Objects held captive in museums and archives outside of the places from where they were looted are only the visible tip of the iceberg of the mass colonial plunder of Africa. The film explores the substantial wealth accumulated through the extraction of raw materials, labour, knowledge and skills, including the “visual wealth” attained by putting people in front of the colonisers’ cameras.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Bona Manga Bell
	Camera Operator	Adel Ben Bella
Editing	Editor	Juna Suleiman
Production	Producer	Eyal Vexler
Sound	Sound Editor	Ziad Fayed
	Music	Nadia Ammour
Crew	Script	Ariela Aïsha Azoulay
Directing	Director	Ariela Aïsha Azoulay
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