Confronting the Empire: militant archival practices in Testimonies from Fallujah and A Fidai Film

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dc.contributor.authorAlvarez, Pabloen
dc.contributor.editorCere, Rinellaen
dc.contributor.editorFenwick, Jamesen
dc.contributor.editorGiglitto, Daniloen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-11T13:12:27Z
dc.date.available2025-11-11T13:12:27Z
dc.date.issued2025-10-23en
dc.description.abstractThis essay explores the appropriation and creative interpretation of audiovisual archives in cinematic representations of the Iraq war and the Israel/Palestine conflict. It showcases the political possibilities of imperial archives in Testimonies from Fallujah (Hamodi Jasim, 2004) and A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari, 2024), two medium-length compilation films that repurpose American and Israeli hegemonic media and fictional footage. Despite their historical, geopolitical, and production differences, the two films share a similar engagement with and against the imperial film and media archive. This essay examines the two films’ archival practices. It argues that the reuse of imperial materials in Testimonies from Fallujah and A Fidai effectively disputes underlying imperial discourses and structures of power in the mediation and filmic representation of the Iraq war and the conflict in Palestine.en
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dc.identifier.citationAlvarez, P. (2025) 'Confronting the Empire: militant archival practices in Testimonies from Fallujah and A Fidai Film', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 29–30, pp. 236–245. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.2930.14en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.2930.14en
dc.identifier.endpage245en
dc.identifier.issued29-30
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage236en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18184
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectMilitant filmmakingen
dc.subjectImperial archivesen
dc.subjectAppropriationen
dc.subjectIraqen
dc.subjectPalestineen
dc.titleConfronting the Empire: militant archival practices in Testimonies from Fallujah and A Fidai Filmen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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