Director Mariagiovanna Nuzzi
Countries Italy
Duration 68 min
Synopsis
Through a rotation, from a zenithal vision we pass to a horizontal one., From the capital of Tunis we move toward the village of Redeyef – in the Tunisian mining area of Gafsa, up to the slopes of the Sahara desert., The shift can be done backwards, as we intend to do with history: hooking the strikes of 2008 in Redeyef to the anticolonial struggles on the mountains bordering with Algeria, as well as it can be done short-circuiting the period of the Tunisian provisional government (after the events of 2011) with the one of the strikes in Redeyef in 2008., It is not a game of counter positions, nor of contradictions, least of all a search for an Hegelian montage: no matters if it’s addressed toward an origin or an end. It can rather be seen as a polarization, as it happens when the speeches of the parties’ representatives are juxtaposed to the ones of the strikers of Redeyef., In the city center of Tunis, the analysis built by one of the founders of Raid Attack Tunisia, or the ones of the Tunisian Worker’s Party spokesman create a tension with the conversations in Redeyef about the strike strategies used in the region in 2008. Chraiti Boujemaa used to find refuge in the mountains when the police was looking for him after the first unrests response to the arrests of the strikers. Chraiti Boujemaa passed his infancy in the desert. Grown as a nomad, together with most of the nowadays inhabitants of Redeyef, he moved to settle in the village when the economy of the phosphate mine (implanted by the French since the end of the XIX century) took over the former ways of life. We follow him, his words, his walks, his stories and memories, but our gaze is not a nostalgic one. So we follow the horizon line being ready to move away and to come back to it, to regenerate that tension that gives a place and timing to other possible rotations.
Through a rotation, from a zenithal vision we pass to a horizontal one., From the capital of Tunis we move toward the village of Redeyef – in the Tunisian mining area of Gafsa, up to the slopes of the Sahara desert., The shift can be done backwards, as we intend to do with history: hooking the strikes of 2008 in Redeyef to the anticolonial struggles on the mountains bordering with Algeria, as well as it can be done short-circuiting the period of the Tunisian provisional government (after the events of 2011) with the one of the strikes in Redeyef in 2008., It is not a game of counter positions, nor of contradictions, least of all a search for an Hegelian montage: no matters if it’s addressed toward an origin or an end. It can rather be seen as a polarization, as it happens when the speeches of the parties’ representatives are juxtaposed to the ones of the strikers of Redeyef., In the city center of Tunis, the analysis built by one of the founders of Raid Attack Tunisia, or the ones of the Tunisian Worker’s Party spokesman create a tension with the conversations in Redeyef about the strike strategies used in the region in 2008. Chraiti Boujemaa used to find refuge in the mountains when the police was looking for him after the first unrests response to the arrests of the strikers. Chraiti Boujemaa passed his infancy in the desert. Grown as a nomad, together with most of the nowadays inhabitants of Redeyef, he moved to settle in the village when the economy of the phosphate mine (implanted by the French since the end of the XIX century) took over the former ways of life. We follow him, his words, his walks, his stories and memories, but our gaze is not a nostalgic one. So we follow the horizon line being ready to move away and to come back to it, to regenerate that tension that gives a place and timing to other possible rotations.