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Author:

Barotsi Rosa

Abstract

Mafrouza is a twelve-hour-long documentary by French director Emanuelle Demoris, shot in a now-demolished neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt. Demoris is one of a long chain of western filmmakers who appeal to some form of ‘taking one’s time’ as an instrument for — morally, politically, epistemologically — adequate representation. Based on the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Eduard Glissant, and Poor Theory, this chapter evaluates what happens when a film adopts a strategy of deferral in cases in which it is not clear how questions of ‘doing justice’ could be resolved. Using long duration and an insistence on the quotidian, Demoris’s film forces us to think about the conditions that make pronouncements about character, situation, and narrative possible, continuously postponing the moment when it will become possible to say: ‘this film is about …’. By setting itself up for failure, the film proposes one possible approach to the ethics and politics of visibility.

Publisher

ICI Berlin Press

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