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Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets
Tate Britain, London The Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowing ‘WHEN WORDS FALL SILENT, CINEMA SPEAKS …” announces a giant sign. “CINEMA AS A WEAPON” is among the slogans pinned to a board. So it is clear from the start that Zineb Sedira’s exhibition at Tate Britain is intended as a manifesto as much as an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of films and sculptures. And these phrases raise questions: if art is a weapon, then who gets to use it, what war is being fought, and is it any longer effective? What silence is being maintained, and who is speaking out against it? To answer these questions, Sedira presents a case study of La Cinémathèque Algérienne , which became a mecca for leftist African film-makers after its foundation in 1965. Screened in a model movie th
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets, Tate Britain, London The Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowing ‘WHEN WORDS FALL SILENT, CINEMA SPEAKS …” announces a giant sign. “CINEMA AS A WEAPON” is among the slogans pinned to a board. So it is clear from the start that Zineb Sedira’s exhibition at Tate Britain is intended as a manifesto as much as an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of films and sculptures. And these phrases raise questions: if art is a weapon, then who gets to use it, what war is being fought, and is it any longer effective? What silence is being maintained, and who is speaking out against it? To answer these questions, Sedira presents a case study of La Cinémathèque Algérienne , which became a mecca for leftist African film-makers after its foundation in 1965. Screened in a model movie th
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