Images de Tunisie
Younes Ben Slimane / United Kingdom, France & Tunisia / 2025 / World Premiere / 15 min
An artist returns to the Berber villages in southern Tunisia where a colonialist propaganda film from the 1940s was shot.
In ‘Images de Tunisie’, Younes Ben Slimane returns to the locations where an archive film of the same name was originally shot by French colonialists in 1940s Tunisia. A minimal approach that Slimane – who is also trained as an architect – uses as a counter-narrative, dissolving the historical markers between past and present with his tactile images. The archive material, originally created for propaganda purposes, is intercut with Slimane’s own footage from the same sites of traditional architecture in Berber villages in southern Tunisia.