Documentary: “AGDAL – Voices of the Atlas”

Documentary: “AGDAL – Voices of the Atlas”

Realized by Pablo Domínguez, ICTA-UAB

Date: Thursday, March 7th 2019

Time: 11.30 - 13h

Venue: Room Z/033

ICTA-UAB documentary group is organizing its first session, next Thursday 7th of March from 11:30-13:00 in the room Z/033. We will watch together “AGDAL – Voices of the Atlas” (French version with English subtitles), a documentary realized by Pablo Dominguez, a CNRS Senior Researcher at GEODE Laboratory (Toulouse) and a LASEG ICTA-UAB Linked Researcher (IVU). The screening of the documentary will be followed by a discussion between the audience and the documentary filmmaker, on both, the content and the methodology of ethnographic documentary. 

AGDAL - Voices of the Atlas (28 minutes)  

This documentary, based on 4 years of ethnological and environmental works, analyses for the first time ever, the ancestral agdal of Yagur, a system of environmental communal management of the Berbers of the Moroccan High Atlas. The agdal will allow us access to numerous secrets of the tandem Nature and Society in the North of Africa, and will talk to us about possible futures for local populations, at the same time as it will touch upon stories combining the sacred with the art of cohabitation between shepherds and biological diversity.