Italy · Film
Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo · 1966
Pontecorvo films the mechanics of occupation with documentary austerity, then layers Ennio Morricone's percussive score so that footsteps, drumming, and gunfire become a single insurgent pulse. Like Kuti, the film treats the soldier's body as the site where doctrine becomes atrocity, and rhythm becomes the language of refusal.