WITCH: Fragments toward a Sorceress Figure is a film-collage that reexamines the lives and legacies of Taos Amrouche, her mother Fadhma, and her grandmother Aïni – three North African women whose voices have been shaped, mediated, and often distorted by colonial and patriarchal narratives. Drawing on personal archives, Berber songs of Kabylia, and intuitive collage-based writing, the film seeks to fill the silences of the archive through affect, ritual, and imagination. Conceiving witchcraft as an artistic and political language, the project explores feminine transmission, embodied freedom, and resistance across generations, proposing a cinema that embraces ambiguity and challenges dominant historical frameworks through feminist and decolonial forms.
Bahia Bencheikh El Fegoun is a filmmaker and researcher whose work explores memory, resistance, and political subjectivity through poetic and documentary film forms.
