BECOMING A MOROCCAN FILMMAKER IN POLAND: ARTISTIC EXPERIMENTATIONS, POLITICAL STRUGGLES, THE TRICONTINENTAL, AND CINEMA AT THE ŁÓDŹ FILM SCHOOL DURING THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES.

This website offers open access to photographs and documents collected and digitised for the CINIMA3: Łódź-Casablanca exhibition.  
It will continue to be updated with new pages and new documents and remains open to new contributions.
 

A project by Léa Morin, inspired by the photographic work of Abdelkrim Derkaoui.  

Thank you to all the archives and rights holders who have contributed to this research project:
Zakia Daoud for the review LAMALIF
Abdellatif Laabi for the review SOUFFLES
Touda Bouanani for the BOUANANI archives
Monique Martineau Hennebelle for the review CINEMACTION
Khemais Khayati for the review CINEMARABE
Mostafa and Abdelkrim Derkaoui, Miguel Sobrado, Abdelkader Lagtaa, Ahmed Boughaba and Léa Morin for their personal collections
PWSTiF (Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Filmowa Telewizyjna i Teatralna) / Łódź Film School Archives
La Cinémathèque québecoise

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of the documents, images and archives presented on this website, but should there be any errors or omissions, please contact us. The images reproduced here are within the legal framework of research for non-commercial use, limited to educational and cultural purposes.

To use or reproduce them, please write to us at morin.lea@gmail.com. Use must be mentioned, and credits included.


All quotes are from the following interviews:

Casablanca-Paris-Łódź, itinerary of a militant filmmaker, interview with Mostafa Derkaoui,

Casablanca, October 2014 and June 2015
Before About Some Meaningless Events, interview with Mostafa Derkaoui, Casablanca, September and October 2017 (with Marie Pierre-Bouthier)
Interview with Mostafa Derkaoui, May 2016, Reactivate Conference, Casablanca, and February 2016, The Greenhouse, Marrakech
Conceptual art practices in Poland, interview with Abdelkader Lagtaa, correspondences, September 2015
Interview with Abdelkader Lagtaa, Paris, October 2015 (Marie Pierre-Bouthier), September 2018, March 2019, May 2019, Paris and Aulnay sous-Bois (with Marie Pierre-Bouthier)

Interviews with Miguel Sobrado, 2016 and 2018

Interview with Abdelkrim Derkaoui, January 2017




The title CINIMA3 is a tribute to the Moroccan magazine CINEMA 3 (1970) edited by Noureddine Sail and the Third Cinema Group / Jamaat es cinima eth talitha (Egypt, 1976).

- Conception, texts and composition: Léa Morin
- Translations: Ahmed Boughaba and Sarah Morris
- Research: Léa Morin and Marie Pierre Bouthier
- Artistic collaboration: Wiame Haddad, Untitled Duo (Soukaina Aboulaoula & Yvon Langué), as well as the team of Le 18 Marrakech (Laila Hida, Francesca Masoero, Amine Lahrach, Soumeya Ait Ahmed, Nadir Bouhmouch & Meriem Ben Mhamed)
- Digitization/Post-production: Wiame Haddad, Léa Morin, Eline Bleton (Observatoire), Meriem Ben Mhamed and Yacer Laariki (Le 18)

We particularly thank them for their friendship, their support and their invaluable contribution to this project.

Curator and independent researcher. Co-founder of L’Observatoire (Art and Research), Casablanca. Involved in publishing, exhibition and restoration projects that bring together researchers, artists and practitioners, her research is an attempt to contribute to a better understanding of artistic modernities, particularly cinematographic ones, rendered invisible by dominant narratives. She is particularly interested in the circulation of ideas, forms, aesthetics, and political and artistic struggles during the independence period (1960s and 1970s), and in questions of cultural decolonization.  

Thank you to Mostafa Derkaoui, Khadija Nour, Kamal Derkaoui, Abdelkader Lagtaa, Bozena Lagtaa, the families of Abdellah Drissi and Hamid Bensaïd, Danielle Lavigne, the families of Roland Paret and Gamba Sao, Miguel Sobrado, the Observatoire Art et Recherche team, the Łódź Film School (Monika Talarczyk and Monika Sarwinska), the National Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Magda Lipska), Ewa Partum and Karolyna Majewska-Guede, the Cinémathèque Algérienne team and Salim Aggar, Maya Ouabadi, Przemyslaw Strozek, Sara Lagnaoui, Gabrielle Chomentowski, Regina Solova, and Zuzanna Sokalska. All contributors, rights holders, and authors. Mourad Chouihi and the CNCA. Ciné archives and Annabelle Aventurin, Arsenal Berlin, Nabyl Lahlou, Moumen Smihi, Djouhra Abouda, Mohamed Abouelouakar, Mostafa Dziri, Peter Limbrick, Omar Berrada, Brigitta Kuster, and Abdeslam Ziou Ziou. Archives Books. Meryem Benm'Barek and Nouha Ben Yebdri.

Yasmina Reggad, Ali Essafi, Touda Bouanani, and Ahmed Boughaba.