{"id":481050,"date":"2022-08-03T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:30:12","slug":"the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Theme of Time in The Battle of Algiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40afe841a3f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40afe841a3f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Theme_of_Time_in_The_Battle_of_Algiers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Theme of Time in The Battle of Algiers&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers\/#Watch_%E2%80%9COccupying_Time_The_Battle_of_Algiers%E2%80%9D\" >Watch \u201cOccupying Time: The Battle of Algiers\u201d:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-theme-of-time-in-the-battle-of-algiers\/#More_videos_like_this\" >More videos like this<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Theme_of_Time_in_The_Battle_of_Algiers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Theme of Time in The Battle of Algiers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Time marches on, as they say.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Battle-of-Algiers.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Battle Of Algiers\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Battle-of-Algiers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Battle-of-Algiers-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                            &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Meg Shields\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 3rd, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Welcome to The Queue \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay that looks at the chronological interplay in the 1966 film The Battle of Algiers.&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Released in August at the Venice Film Festival \u2014 at which it won the Golden Lion \u2014\u00a0<strong><em>The Battle of Algiers\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is one of the greatest political films ever made. Largely inspired by Saadi Yacef\u2019s 1962 film <em>Souvenirs de la Bataille D\u2019Alger<\/em>, Gillo Pontecorvo\u2019s 1966 film dramatizes the brutal, dramatic, and often difficult-to-watch key events that took place between 1956 and 1957 within the broader fight for Algerian independence from French colonial rule. Adopting a documentary format, made all the more visceral by shooting on-location where the wounds of French rule were still fresh, the film details numerous aggressions from both sides of the conflict: horrifying bombs, inhumane torture, and mass civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>It is, like all of the best war films, firmly anti-war, with a central argument that armed conflict is a toxin that harms and mutilates everyone who participates in it, or has the misfortune of being in the warpath. It is a film of astonishing relevance, And its confrontational candor has lost none of its power in the intervening years since its release (what, after all, could be more confrontational than children shooting soldiers at point-blank range?).<\/p>\n<p>As the video essay below notes, one of the key muscles <em>The Battle of Algiers\u00a0<\/em>relies on is its constant sense of <em>time<\/em> and <em>temporality<\/em>. There are prologues, flashbacks, and codas: incessant reminders of both historical time, mundanity, acceleration, and literal ticking clocks, set to light literal fuses. Wordless and frantic, the video essay does an excellent job conveying not only where this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> plays out in Pontecorvo\u2019s film but how it <em>feels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watch_%E2%80%9COccupying_Time_The_Battle_of_Algiers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Watch \u201cOccupying Time: The Battle of Algiers\u201d:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Occupying Time: The Battle of Algiers\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/290311136?h=da1dd85ae7&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-19294f9d-99fc-4cee-8ca7-135f7eaf7b45\">This video essay on how temporalities play out in <em>The Battle of Algiers<\/em> is by\u00a0<strong>OuScholPo<\/strong>, a Denmark-based artistic-academic partnership between <strong>Marie Hallager Andersen<\/strong> and <strong>Alan O\u2019Leary<\/strong>. This essay is by O\u2019Leary and was\u00a0published in <em>[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film &amp; Moving Image Studies,<\/em> 6:3 2019. You can check out OuScholPo\u2019s Vimeo account <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ouscholpo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_videos_like_this\"><\/span>More videos like this<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul id=\"block-07b9dd5c-53ce-4517-a7ce-70d71e3d4293\">\n<li>Here\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Alan O\u2019Leary\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/642617628\">presenting<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mimesisinternational.com\/the-battle-of-algiers\/\">his book<\/a> on\u00a0<em>The Battle of Algiers<\/em>, which you should totally check out if you\u2019re a fan of the film, the above video essay, or both!<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Nolan is a director famously obsessed with temporalities and storytelling that incorporates and fixates on time. Here\u2019s StudioBinder with a video essay on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QrRe3QL08Xs\">how this dominant motif<\/a> plays out in the director\u2019s work.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, here\u2019s the always eloquent Nerdwriter1 with a more personal look at how Soviet director <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cztCmNSVS3Q\">Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s concept of time<\/a> became more meaningful in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: The Queue\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/meg.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Meg Shields is the humble farm boy of your dreams and a senior contributor at Film School Rejects. She currently runs three columns at FSR: The Queue, How&#8217;d They Do That?, and Horrorscope. She is also a curator for One Perfect Shot and a freelance writer for hire. Meg can be found screaming about John Boorman&#8217;s &#8216;Excalibur&#8217; on Twitter here: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWorstNun\">@TheWorstNun<\/a>. (She\/Her).        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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