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Ali in Wonderland (1975)
Directed by Alain Bonnamy, Djouhra Abouda
Documentary · 59m
Ali in Wonderland unveils the condition of immigrant workers in Paris in the 1970s. It is a cry of anger against exploitation and racism, uncompromisingly raising the role of the French state, the media, capitalism, and colonization in this system of domination that crushes those who suffer it. In this experimental essay on the condition of Algerian migrants in Giscard's France in the mid-1970s, every aesthetic choice has a precise and legible political motivation and gives body and voice to a figure completely absent from the experimental cinema of the time: that of the immigrant worker. Abouda is one of the children of immigrants seen in the film, and not a simple activist serving a cause, which is why the emotion of her experimental gesture, which she throws in the viewer's face, springs from a ferocity inscribed in her body, from an insatiable anger that inhabits her gaze.
Crew
- Director
- Alain Bonnamy, Djouhra Abouda
- Writer
- Alain Bonnamy, Djouhra Abouda
- Director of Photography
- Alain Bonnamy
- Editor
- Nadia Fassil
- Producer
- Alain Bonnamy, Djouhra Abouda
Details
- Original title
- Ali Au Pays Des Merveilles
- Release date
- 1975-01-01
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- France