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Retracing Vidange perdue:
Film, Struggle, and Diasporic Dwelling in 1970s Brussels


Amel Moyersoen



Amel Moyersoen


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  1. From a conversation with the author on January 24, 2026. Translated by the author.
  2. Tina Campt, Listening to Images, Duke University Press, 2017. 
  3. Digital Archives of Algerian Cinema. 
  4. Institute of Media Arts.
  5. National Higher Institute of Performing Arts and Media Technologies. 
  6. Fatima El-Tayeb, European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). 
  7. Stuart Hall, “Constituting an Archive,” Third Text 15, no. 54 (2001).
  8. Aditi Jaganathan, Sarita Malik, and June Jivanni, “June Jivanni’s PanAfrican Cinema Archive: A Diasporic Feminist Dwelling Space,” Feminist Review 125, no. 1 (2020). 
  9. The National Office for Cinematographic Industry and Commerce.
  10. Hala Salmane, “Structure of Algerian Cinema,” in Algerian Cinema, ed. Simon Hartog, Hala Salmane, and David Wilson (British Film Institute, 1976).
  11. A movement also referred to as “Third Cinema,” after Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas’s and Octavio Getino’s 1969 manifesto, Toward A Third Cinema.
  12. Some of these journeys have been beautifully researched by Léa Morin in her book De quelques événements sans signification à reconstituer (About Some Meaningless Events to be Reconstituted, 2022), on Moroccan filmmaker Mostafa Derkaoui, who studied in Gdansk; and by Filippa César and Guinea Bissauan filmmaker Flora Gomes, who studied in Havana, in their film Spell Reel (2017). 
  13. Tom Naegels, Nieuw België. Een migratiegeschiedenis (1944-1978) [New Belgium: A History of Migration (1944-1978)], (Lannoo, 2021). 
  14. N. Frank Ukadike, Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). 
  15. Nicole Brasseur, Jozef Lievens, and Albert Martens, “De grote stad: Een geplande chaos?” (“The Big City: A Planned Chaos?”), Horizonreeks no. 29 (1975). Albert Martens, “Ten Years of Expropriations and Evictions in Brussels North Quarter (1965-1974): What are the Legacies Today?,” Brussels Studies no. 29 (2009). 
  16. Le Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes (est.1972).  
  17. Gérald Hanotiaux, “Une action charnière pour l’immigration en Belgique” (“A Pivotal Action for Immigration in Belgium”), Bruxelles en mouvements no. 291 (2017). 
  18. La Voix des Sans Papiers de Bruxelles (est. 2014). 
  19. Mustapha Bentaleb, Joachim Ben Yakoub, “Archive of Maghrebi Resistance in 1970s Belgium,” The Funambelist no. 54 (2024). 
  20. L’Amicale des Mulâtres de Belgique (est. 1955, active through the early 2000s).
  21. Groupe Mulâtres Communautaires (GMC, active in the 1970s).
  22. Rassemblement Démocratique Marocain (RDM, 1974-1983).
  23. L’Union Nationale des Étudiants du Maroc (UNEM, est. 1956).
  24. “Mohamed El Baroudi, un «Fil Rouge» de 40 ans d’immigration marocaine à Bruxelles” (“Mohamed El Baroudi: A ‘Common Thread’ of Forty Years of Immigration in Belgium”), Les Cahiers du Fil Rouge no. 7-8 (2007). Ilke Adam, Bambi Ceuppens, and Fatima Zibouh, “The Pioneers of (the New) Anti-Racism in Belgium,” in A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe?, ed. Ilke Adam, Jean Beaman, Mariska Jung (Springer, 2026).
  25. “The People of Migration.”
  26. Association de la Jeunesse Marocaine en Belgique (AJMB, est. 1976). 
  27. “Once Upon a Time.”
  28. “Fidelity Radio.” Zoulika Atarhouch, “1976-1986 : La Jeunesse maghrébine à Bruxelles” (“1976-1986: Maghrebi Youth in Brussels”), Revue Politique (2021). Fatima Zibouh, “Paroles d'experte - Enjeux de mémoire autour des expressions culturelles et artistiques : écrire l’histoire des artistes belgo-marocains” (“Expert Perspective – Issues of Memory Surrounding Cultural and Artistic Expressions: Writing the History of Belgian-Moroccan Artists”), C@hiers du CRHiDI vol. 46 (2023).

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