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The Public Storyteller : mixed media synchronized dual film installation

Khalili, Bouchra LU (2024)
Abstract
The Public Storyteller is an artwork produced in 16mm film and video.
It brings back to Morocco the epic of Djellali Kamal - an anonymous North African undocumented worker in France - and his candidacy to 1974 French presidential election. The work stages a halqa, a centuries-old practice of public storytelling in Morocco, to people arranged in a circle. In this halqa, Djellali’s campaign is narrated by a storyteller in Marrakesh, implicitly forming a new circle linking the diaspora and North Africa.
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  title        = {{The Public Storyteller : mixed media synchronized dual film installation}},
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