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Auteur as Outlaw
The counter-cinema of the Algerian-born French director, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, combining a wide range of genres with a commitment to collective work and reflexive elaboration. Images and soundscapes, emanating from the banlieue and maquis, caught with anthropological precision by a filmmaker formed by the world of his subjects.
A New Proletkino?
Is it possible to detect the contours of a new genre of proletarian cinema operating across the widely contrasted films of Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers, Robert Guédiguian, Aki Kaurismäki and Pedro Costa? What does this body of work say about contemporary working-class experience and its representations on the silver screen?