Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams(2012)

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams Synopsis

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody resistance, and celebrate those who work to liberate others. Boutadjine creates his portraits of Third World artists such as Miriam Makeba, and Algerian figures such as Assia Djebar from pieces of paper torn from high end fashion magazines and other, glossy, glitzy publications. Using this material is as much an act of rejecting bourgeois standards, which are often anti-North African in France, as much as elevating these figures and making them the social and visual standard against which we should judge ourselves, not the runway models of Chanel.

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012) is a documentary film directed by Hamid Benamra, released on June 2, 2012 with a runtime of 1h 40m. It stars Mustapha Boutadjine, Mahmoud Darwish, Angela Davis and Tommie Smith.