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Release Date:
March 11, 2017
Original Title:
Also Known as Jihadi
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Poulet-Malassis
Spectre Productions
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 102
Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, the work employs the so-called landscape theory (fukeiron in Japanese). The character's paths to radicalism are rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject: a biography determined not by what the subject did, but by what the subject saw, and one that questions how these landscapes reflect the social and political structures that are the backdrop for a journey of alienation and return.
Director:
Eric Baudelaire
Director of Photography:
Claire Mathon
Alan Guichaoua
Editor:
Claire Atherton
Writer:
Eric Baudelaire
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