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Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour • Presented by Archives on Screen
The Samama Chikli Project
Sunday, February 16 • 5:00pm • Tickets: $12 General (+ $2 online fee), $8 Members (no fee), $8 Students (door)
Introduction by Aboubakar Sanogo
Tim O'Keefe will be accompanying all 8 Chikli shorts in the Sunday, 5pm program. Live music throughout!
The Albert Samama Chikli Project archives the work of Tunisian filmmaker and photographer, Albert Samama Chikli (1872-1933), who made over 100 films from 1905 to 1924. Entrusted to the Cineteca di Bologna by his family, archivists are in the process of ordering, identifying, and scanning the collection of films, photos, and fragments. This project is ongoing in Bologna, and pieces of the archive screen each year at Il Cinema Ritrovato as they are restored and digitized.
In this shorts segment, we’ve curated a selection of Samama Chikli’s early non-fiction films and a fragment from one of his two feature films, Ain El Ghezal: The Girl from Carthage (1923–1924).
THE FILMS
Arab Agricultural Industry (Industrie agricole arabe) • 1911 • Tunisia • 5 min • silent
Sheep Shearing in Tunisia (La tonte des moutons en Tunisie) • 1916 • Tunisia • 5 min • silent
Fishing on the Tunisian Coast (Pêches sur les côtes Tunisiennes) • 1914 • Tunisia • 4 min • silent
The Sponge Industry (L'industrie des éponges) • 1912 • Tunisia • 6 min • silent
Sousse – Olive Harvest (Sousse – Récolte des olives) • 1910 • Tunisia • 5:09 min • silent
German Prisoners in Tunisia (Les prisonniers allemands en Tunisie) • 1916 • Tunisia • 4:09 min • silent
Picturesque Tripoli (La Tripolitaine pittoresque) • 1911 • Libya • 6:13 min • silent
Aïn el Ghezal: The Girl from Carthage (Aïn el Ghezal: La fille de Carthage) • 1923-1924 • Tunisia • 25 min • silent