Also Known as Jihadi

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Also Known as Jihadi (2017)

Directed by Eric Baudelaire

Documentary · 1h 42m

Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, the work employs the so-called landscape theory (fukeiron in Japanese). The character's paths to radicalism are rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject: a biography determined not by what the subject did, but by what the subject saw, and one that questions how these landscapes reflect the social and political structures that are the backdrop for a journey of alienation and return.

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Crew

Director
Eric Baudelaire
Writer
Eric Baudelaire
Director of Photography
Claire Mathon, Alan Guichaoua
Editor
Claire Atherton

Details

Release date
2017-03-11
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
Poulet-Malassis, Spectre Productions