Two Meetings and a Funeral

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Book Review| September 03 2019 Two Meetings and a Funeral Two Meetings and a Funeral, directed by Naeem Mohaiemen, 88 min., 2017 Dan S. Wang Dan S. Wang Dan S. Wang is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dan S. Wang is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Afterimage (2019) 46 (3): 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463014 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dan S. Wang; Two Meetings and a Funeral. Afterimage 3 September 2019; 46 (3): 89–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463014 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search At one point in the documentary Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017, directed by Naeem Mohaiemen, Algerian university students amble through the frame, navigating present-day Constantine 1 University, a campus distinguished by a collection of structures designed by Brazilian communist architect Oscar Niemeyer, oblivious to the history that gave rise to them. The publisher and Frantz Fanon scholar Samia Zennadi is asked what remains in Algeria of the halcyon 1970s spirit. She says, “A lot of empty words, speech that sounds fake… it’s as if we missed a turn and are now stuck.” Aging modernist gems serving an apolitical student body borne of a disillusioned society perfectly encapsulate the fate of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Continuing filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen’s attention to the failures of the global left, the story of the NAM as a two-fold loss—first as political manifestation and second as memory—is the subject of this remarkable three-channel film.... You do not currently have access to this content.