Checks and Balances
( Contre-pouvoirs )
Malek Bensmaïl
2015 - Algérie - Couleur - 97'
Photography : Malek Bensmaïl
Sound : Hamid Osmani
Editing : Matthieu Bretaud
Music : Phil Marboeuf, Camel Zekri
Production : Hikayet Films, Ina, Magnolia
Malek Bensmaïl
2015 - Algérie - Couleur - 97'
Accommodated since Algeria’s Bloody Decade of the nineties in the “House of the Press”, the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. I decided to set up my camera in their newsroom as they follow the events of this new Algerian spring, after twenty years of work and twenty years of fighting for the independence of the press.
Photography : Malek Bensmaïl
Sound : Hamid Osmani
Editing : Matthieu Bretaud
Music : Phil Marboeuf, Camel Zekri
Production : Hikayet Films, Ina, Magnolia