In the late 1960s, Ahmed Bouanani-working as an editor for the CCM-was "exiled" to the organization's cinematic archives as a punishment for alleged leftist sympathies. Turning the assignment to his advantage, he made a found-footage film that re-purposed the documentaries produced by the French during the colonial period to a strong anti-colonial essay film. While censored by the Moroccan authorities to just a fifth of its original running time, this film-which also deploys Bouanani's interest in poetry and popular arts-is a testament to the resistance of Morocco's inhabitants and the memory of social and cultural practices never entirely extinguished by the colonial project.