Généalogie de la violence

In Mohamed Bourouissa’s Genealogy of Violence, the naturalist and the hallucinatory levels are juxtaposed, the second being developed through digital animation. Contrary to what often happens with such a new medium, Bourouissa does not explore the medium in and of itself but instead chooses what is useful in order to convey a specific experience of drifting away into the inner forum of the protagonist. The alienation of this experience is rendered acute, perfectly in contraposition to the naturalist scenes, which are able to show the nuanced realities of two young lovers that slowly approach the big questions in life. In this way we can feel how violent the relatively ordinary intervention of the policemen is, and how it works on the protagonist in disconnecting him from the possibility of a shared intimacy. The digital hallucination will mean and express solitude and rage.

Genealogy of Violence | Mohamed Bourouissa | FR 2024 | 15’ | Winner at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2024, FIFDH Genève 2025
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Screenings at FIFDH Genève 2025