Since independence, despite a policy of Arabization intensive Amazigh identity has continued to speak, mainly through its poets, musicians and singers. For the film, he has had to wait more than thirty years. Time Boumediene, Chadli then he was out of question that the production of Algeria, wholly nationalized, draws a detour through the Berber.
Once the system began to crack in the early 90s, the film Amazigh won their place on the screen. For it is indeed a victory, that of a cinematically unexplored territory of Algerian culture. The four feature films made to date in Tamazight language - Hill forgotten, Machaho , Mountain Baya and Si Mohand or M'hand - beyond the standards of the Algerian production, given the mounting financial, infrastructure and general, one might add, in their eagerness to exist.
Hill forgotten first feature film in the Berber language was released in January 1995. This movie is the adaptation of the famous and iconic novel Mouloud Mammeri is obviously no coincidence. Its director, Abderrahmane Bouguermouh, stated elsewhere in the prospectus for opening the press release: "Between Mouloud Mammeri and me, there was an oath: if we honor one day returning to the first film in Berber, Hill would be forgotten (...) There was also this contract with the Kabylie: working for the rebirth of culture .
Video The Forgotten Hill - The hill, forgotten, kabyle
sent kabylovore . - Short film, documentary and trailer.
1965, Bouguermouh running a short film in Tamazight, Like a soul, which earned him his dismissal and forfeiture of the film [1] . This does not prevent re-offending three years later, by filing the draft Hill forgotten before the commission of the scenario. Although in 1952 Mammeri wrote his novel in French, he and Bouguermouh insist that the film takes place in Berber. The draft is not accepted.
The director then tried, unsuccessfully, to mount the production abroad, before re-submitting the script to proceedings Official 20 years later, in 1988. They finally agreed, but lip service: the contribution of CAAIC is limited to the provision of filming equipment and the technical team. Bouguermouh obtained parallel 4 million dinars, or an eighth of the funding, with the support of a committee whose members number of intellectuals like Rachid Mimouni.
The remaining budget is mounted via associations, local politicians, artists, who are mobilizing en masse for sets, costumes, props, extras and non-professional actors and, of course, funding. Bouguermouh is not the end of his sentences because in fact the film is not finished: the state laboratory that ensured the draw for the copy, as often happens, the missed work. And any post-production remains to be done. It took two years for the film, finding its shape and duration definitive way at last. Bouguermouh then declare the daily Liberté " This will be my last film. I reached my final goal; there ends my career as a filmmaker irrevocably . "At the newspaper El Watan, which asks whether the film is such that he had dreamed, the director replied bluntly:" Not at all. I did not technical means. For us, what mattered was first to make a film in Tamazight. We must be content with that. This does not mean that The Forgotten Hill is a bad movie. That the public to judge. But there was a choice to make. Either do a very good movie, and it required all currency to acquire hardware, costumes, technicians lot of money to get rid of the chores and take care only of the film, which was not, alas! Either take this opportunity and rush to make this film before it's too late, with the means at hand. I chose the second option and I think I was right " [2] .
The same funding difficulties will be encountered by the two following films in Tamazight, Machaho (1996) and The Mountain Baya (1997). These two films are among the first to have used a system of independent production . In this case Imago Films, a company founded by Belkacem Hadjadj and Azzedine Meddour.
Thousand financial problems are almost derailed the project and block repeatedly achieve. In addition there are threats to the filmmakers, like many intellectuals during this period. While preparing the film, such change must Meddour roof every night [3] . The shootings are the high-risk companies, particularly as the Kabylia is now one of the most dangerous regions of Algeria and the terror there is in full swing ...
Belkacem Hadjadj is yet Machaho starts in février1994, three months after the first round of crank Hill forgotten. In July, the team was ambushed. The film is completed only by the local population, which provides permanent protection service. " Machaho production, the first feature film in the Berber language, has a history. Is that of Algerian technicians who have demonstrated their tremendous generosity and courage, and their French counterparts who, like them, believed in this adventure, "wrote the director in a production note. He continued: "Who would have been foolish to turn in 1994 in Kabylia, in natural settings, while each day brought its share of tragedies? Who but madmen driven mad by love of this country and this people that history turmoil? "To achieve
Baya Mountain, filmed several times interrupted, lasts a year and a half, Azzedine Meddour also faces the greatest dangers. The horror will be at the rendezvous. In a space that contains explosives for use in a scene from the film, an explosion erupts and carries a part of the team. A dozen technicians, whose script and found death. Accident? In the interview published in the press kit, Meddour said: " Was it an attack? There should be evidence and I do not the boards, so I can not speculate on that. The chosen version says it was an accident, but I personally do not believe at all, like most people who were in the room .
few months after this tragic episode, which had severely affected Meddour said: " What is absolutely amazing with this scenario and the history of film, is that at some point it became the same destiny: we began to experience what living Baya. She fought for the survival of certain values. We. We were doing cinematic expression Survive, survive ourselves as being humans, citizens, creators. We wanted to say we're still here. For how long? Nobody knew then . Azzedine Meddour who died in May 2000, three years after the release of his film, from cancer.
Once the system began to crack in the early 90s, the film Amazigh won their place on the screen. For it is indeed a victory, that of a cinematically unexplored territory of Algerian culture. The four feature films made to date in Tamazight language - Hill forgotten, Machaho , Mountain Baya and Si Mohand or M'hand - beyond the standards of the Algerian production, given the mounting financial, infrastructure and general, one might add, in their eagerness to exist.
Hill forgotten first feature film in the Berber language was released in January 1995. This movie is the adaptation of the famous and iconic novel Mouloud Mammeri is obviously no coincidence. Its director, Abderrahmane Bouguermouh, stated elsewhere in the prospectus for opening the press release: "Between Mouloud Mammeri and me, there was an oath: if we honor one day returning to the first film in Berber, Hill would be forgotten (...) There was also this contract with the Kabylie: working for the rebirth of culture .
Video The Forgotten Hill - The hill, forgotten, kabyle
sent kabylovore . - Short film, documentary and trailer.
1965, Bouguermouh running a short film in Tamazight, Like a soul, which earned him his dismissal and forfeiture of the film [1] . This does not prevent re-offending three years later, by filing the draft Hill forgotten before the commission of the scenario. Although in 1952 Mammeri wrote his novel in French, he and Bouguermouh insist that the film takes place in Berber. The draft is not accepted.
The director then tried, unsuccessfully, to mount the production abroad, before re-submitting the script to proceedings Official 20 years later, in 1988. They finally agreed, but lip service: the contribution of CAAIC is limited to the provision of filming equipment and the technical team. Bouguermouh obtained parallel 4 million dinars, or an eighth of the funding, with the support of a committee whose members number of intellectuals like Rachid Mimouni.
The remaining budget is mounted via associations, local politicians, artists, who are mobilizing en masse for sets, costumes, props, extras and non-professional actors and, of course, funding. Bouguermouh is not the end of his sentences because in fact the film is not finished: the state laboratory that ensured the draw for the copy, as often happens, the missed work. And any post-production remains to be done. It took two years for the film, finding its shape and duration definitive way at last. Bouguermouh then declare the daily Liberté " This will be my last film. I reached my final goal; there ends my career as a filmmaker irrevocably . "At the newspaper El Watan, which asks whether the film is such that he had dreamed, the director replied bluntly:" Not at all. I did not technical means. For us, what mattered was first to make a film in Tamazight. We must be content with that. This does not mean that The Forgotten Hill is a bad movie. That the public to judge. But there was a choice to make. Either do a very good movie, and it required all currency to acquire hardware, costumes, technicians lot of money to get rid of the chores and take care only of the film, which was not, alas! Either take this opportunity and rush to make this film before it's too late, with the means at hand. I chose the second option and I think I was right " [2] .
The same funding difficulties will be encountered by the two following films in Tamazight, Machaho (1996) and The Mountain Baya (1997). These two films are among the first to have used a system of independent production . In this case Imago Films, a company founded by Belkacem Hadjadj and Azzedine Meddour.
Thousand financial problems are almost derailed the project and block repeatedly achieve. In addition there are threats to the filmmakers, like many intellectuals during this period. While preparing the film, such change must Meddour roof every night [3] . The shootings are the high-risk companies, particularly as the Kabylia is now one of the most dangerous regions of Algeria and the terror there is in full swing ...
Belkacem Hadjadj is yet Machaho starts in février1994, three months after the first round of crank Hill forgotten. In July, the team was ambushed. The film is completed only by the local population, which provides permanent protection service. " Machaho production, the first feature film in the Berber language, has a history. Is that of Algerian technicians who have demonstrated their tremendous generosity and courage, and their French counterparts who, like them, believed in this adventure, "wrote the director in a production note. He continued: "Who would have been foolish to turn in 1994 in Kabylia, in natural settings, while each day brought its share of tragedies? Who but madmen driven mad by love of this country and this people that history turmoil? "To achieve
Baya Mountain, filmed several times interrupted, lasts a year and a half, Azzedine Meddour also faces the greatest dangers. The horror will be at the rendezvous. In a space that contains explosives for use in a scene from the film, an explosion erupts and carries a part of the team. A dozen technicians, whose script and found death. Accident? In the interview published in the press kit, Meddour said: " Was it an attack? There should be evidence and I do not the boards, so I can not speculate on that. The chosen version says it was an accident, but I personally do not believe at all, like most people who were in the room .
few months after this tragic episode, which had severely affected Meddour said: " What is absolutely amazing with this scenario and the history of film, is that at some point it became the same destiny: we began to experience what living Baya. She fought for the survival of certain values. We. We were doing cinematic expression Survive, survive ourselves as being humans, citizens, creators. We wanted to say we're still here. For how long? Nobody knew then . Azzedine Meddour who died in May 2000, three years after the release of his film, from cancer.
[1] The "permanence Berber" by Jeanne Baumberger in CinémAction Cinemas Maghreb: echoes from the front, Paris Telerama Ed.Corlet-, N-111, 2nd quarter 2004, p.213
[2] Ibid, p.214
[3] Testimony in June 2006 Timezrit, hometown director.
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