Sonorisation de l’anarchive ou la Palestine comme projet politique – À l’écoute de « A Fidai Film » de Kamal Aljafari et de « Partition » de Diana Allan

Abstract

Kamal Aljafari’s A Fidai Film draws on Palestinian archives confiscated by Israel in Beirut in 1982. Diana Allan created Partition using archives from Mandatory Palestine held at the Imperial War Museum in London. The film notebook not only refers to a type of fragmentary editing, but also allows us to revisit the relationship between sound and image, thus offering an exercise in remembrance in the present. By adding sound to images, the two filmmakers question the contradictions inherent in archives, their erasure or their resistance to authoritative or propagandistic discourse. Thus, under the guise of sensory and sound anthropology for Diana Allan or acoustic ecology for Kamal Aljafari, these two films enable us to project soundscapes of a Palestine in the making, as a promise capable of countering the genocidal logic that has wounded this territory for 75 years.