Also Known as Jihadi
2017•1h 42m•4.2•Released
Documentary
Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, the work employs the so-called landscape theory (fukeiron in Japanese). The character's paths to radicalism are rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject: a biography determined not by what the subject did, but by what the subject saw, and one that questions how these landscapes reflect the social and political structures that are the backdrop for a journey of alienation and return.
Director
Eric Baudelaire
Writer
Eric Baudelaire
Languages
French
Studio
Poulet-Malassis
Production
Company
Poulet-Malassis
Company
Spectre Productions
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