Abstract
This article addresses two recent contributions to the archive of Moroccan cinema and culture: Ahmed Bouanani (1938-2011)'s recently published history of cinema in Morocco, La Septième porte: Une histoire du cinéma au Maroc de 1907-1986 (2020), and Ali Essafi's montage film Avant le déclin du jour (2020). In addressing these two works, the essay also evokes Bouanani's archival film Mémoire 14 (1971) which, like the other two texts, theorizes a relationship between Morocco's colonial past and its contested postcolonial present. By thinking across these interventions, the essay reveals a collaborative project to construct an archive of cinema, politics, and culture in Morocco beyond the absences and denials of the past.
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