Drawing on family lived experience of destitution and sleeping on the underground in 80s Paris, Bladi - My Country uses the train as a vehicle to explore how displacement feels as an embodied experience across generations. Personal and public archives are pieced together, blurring linear timeframes that speak to the haziness of memory and ongoing colonial subjugation of people we see around the world today. Further reading on this Substack post.

Year: 2024

Length: 4 minutes 45 seconds

Darija translation: Abdelmalek Lezzoum and Leila Gamaz

Amazigh music: Bouhou, recorded by Leila Gamaz in the Kabyle mountains