TY - BOOK AU - Ali Essafi ED - Sharjah Art Foundation TI - Widen the Circle- An obscure experimentation in North African Avant-Garde Cinema SN - 9781915656018 PY - 2022/// PB - Sharjah Art Foundation; KW - TR845-899 Technology- Cinematography N1 - SAF Publishing Grant 2020 N2 - Widen the Circle: An Obscure Experimentation in North African Avant-Garde Cinema by Morocco and Brazil-based filmmaker, artist and curator, Ali Essafi traces the colonial history present in North African cinema through three films: Mémoire 14 [Memory 14] (1971), directed by Ahmed Bouanani; Mohammadia (1973), directed by Ahmed Bennys; and Combien je vous aime [How much I love you] (1985), directed by Azzedine Meddour. The essay offers insight into why these works have remained largely overlooked by local and international audiences. ER -