Zineb Sedira Movie Trailers

Tracer un territoire Trailer (2016)

01 January 2016

Is it legitimate to want to define the limits of a territory, or does this amount to removing them from the only domain where they can become fulfilled: the interiority of the one who expresses them, in this case her father? And if this is the case, how, in a respectful way, to map the notion of territory? Every effort of spatialisation is, for her father, at once mental and physical.

Don't Do To Her What You Did To Me Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

"One sees a close-up shot of a glass being filled with water. Bubbles are formed but slowly the water regains its still quality.

Silent Sight Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

A video installation where the camera brackets a woman’s eyes so that they inhabit the entire field of view.

Guiding Light Trailer (2014)

01 January 2014

The piece explores the cultural crossovers, the geo-political area as a continual interweaving of cultural roots and historical routes.

mise-en-scène (scene 1) is part of Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go Trailer (2019)

01 January 2019

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, the Algerian film industry flourished in an anti-colonial environment, giving rise to a nation of politically aware film lovers.

Scream of Liberation Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

[Overview Courtesy of Lux Online] In French this is called a 'Youyou', a sound made by women mainly to celebrates happy occasions but also was used during the Algerian war of liberation by women as a weapon against French soldiers.

Retelling Histories Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

Sedira and her mother have a conversation in their respective mother tongues; French and Arabic, respectively, about her mother's and other women's roles in the Algerian War of Independence.

Autobiographical Patterns Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

The video shows the artist almost obsessively writing an autobiographical text in French onto her own hand, until the repeated overlays of words come to resemble a mysterious, intricate, Arabesque pattern.

WHEN CINEMA SPEAKS... Trailer (2026)

13 May 2026

Zineb Sedira pays tribute to the history of African Cinema and the filmmakers who had inspired her.

Dreams have no titles Trailer (2022)

23 April 2022

Part of Zineb Sedira's art installation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. A piece where Sedira explores her passion for the militant cinema of the 60s and 70s.

Narration in Motion Trailer (2026)