cinema antiplastique
Algeria ‘69 Festival
In the late 1960’s and early 70’s the city of Algiers became home to a revolutionary vanguard of Pan African imagination. Algerians held the admiration of the Third World and her disapora, having freed themselves seven years earlier from over one hundred and thirty years of French settler colonialism through guerilla revolution. 900,000 French Pied Noir, born in Algeria between 1830 and 1962, exited the country in the years which followed. Like the sucessful Haitian revolution of 1791, Algerian victory followed generations of protracted struggle, armed resistance and matrilineal strategy. 1969 celebrations in the city of Algiers included performances by international luminaries Miriam Makeba, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone and Assia Djebar. Today, the promise of Haiti and Algeria exist among many sites of unfinished movements for liberation caught within retaliatory counter revolutionary forces. In cinema antiplastique’s Algeria ‘69 festival, we revisit important histories and roadmaps of African socialism, Third World Feminism and indigenous led climate justice during this euphoric time of change. Embracing the power of art as a revolutionary tool, we’ll enjoy film screenings, talks, activities for children and cinema antimplastique’s embodied movement practices to keep the dream grounded in our bodies and moving forward.
february 2026 program tba
images:
Black Panther Community News service: “Panthers in the Kasbah”
friend with Marvin Gaye, Pan African Festival of Algiers 1969
crowds and parade from the Pan African Festival of Algiers 1969
Sawsan Noweir with writer / director Assia Djebar
South African singer Miriam Makeba
sings “Ana horra fil Jazier”, I am free in Algeria
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