فن الهامش وهامش الحرية. نزعة التسيس في فلم التحريك التونسي

Abstract

Animated cinema in Tunisia remains a terra incognita both beyond its own borders and within them. A production limited to short formats suffering from the same screening problems as other short films, and from the prejudices still associated to this kind of cinema – exclusively for children, purely fun, too popular – can explain the marginal status of animated cinema compared to “other” cinema, in the Art world and at the University and the lack of criticism and studies on Tunisian animation. Nonetheless, the Arab uprisings of 2011 increased the visibility of the region’s media and cinema on a global scale. The special attention paid to animation is undoubtedly and in large part motivated by the emergence of an Arab Spring production and post-revolution animation, mainly broadcast on the web. These web short films, such as the transnational series Kharabeesh or the Tunisian series Captain Khobza have been in tune with street protests and dissent on Social Medias by offering satirical political content. This article, while retracing the history of Tunisian animated film, aims to show, through two case studies, how this cinema has been, since its birth in the mid1960s and until today, a committed and a dissent cinema.