LES SERIES DOCUMENTAIRES
Memento is committed to offering its audience an immersive and educational audio experience, highlighting the importance of the documentary series format. This narrative approach, divided into several thematic and chronological episodes, is a real way to confront and learn more about little-known, often forgotten parts of History.
Memento's documentary series explore historical topics that are often relegated to the background, thus allowing a detailed and nuanced view of events, personalities and periods deserving special attention. Thus, the documentary series format is established as an educational tool so that everyone can explore forgotten history, develop their understanding of the world and contribute to the preservation of collective memory. By revealing little-known facets of our past, these documentary series become a source of cultural and intellectual enrichment, thus reinforcing Memento's commitment to a better understanding of history, making it more accessible to all in order to preserve our historical heritage.
The Rif War, a forgotten colonial war
"I wanted to make the Rif an independent country like France and Spain, and to found a free state with total sovereignty. An independence that would assure us total freedom of self-determination and management of our affairs, and to conclude the treaties and alliances that suited us."
Racism, between past and present
"The phobia can be the object of a treatment which is obviously not penal but medical. Extending the use of this term to the designation of social discrimination is to make the author of the discrimination a sick person, and thereby exonerate him: just as the arachnophobe is not responsible for his fear of spiders. From being guilty, he would therefore become a victim."
Moroccan minors, obscure memory
"In December 1986, the decision was made to stop coal mining in Nord Pas de Calais. From 1987, with this in mind, miners with less than 15 to 20 years of experience had to retrain. Given their often recent arrival, Moroccans were particularly affected. However, they were given treatment that no one considered to be equal."
The Heroines of the Resistance
"Women become an essential element, a privileged target, even a pillar, of Vichy ideology. Pétain's project, the National Revolution under the banner of "Work, Family, Fatherland" is to create a society where individualism, banished, gives way to a community spirit where everyone has a well-defined place and where family values are preponderant. The individual therefore no longer has any freedom of opinion and must blend into a hierarchical and immutable whole."
Armenian Genocide, the legacy of silence
"The leader of the soldiers told us: 'Your husbands are today in Aleppo, they are sending to ask you to join them. We can only comply with their wish. However, we advise you to hand over to us what you have of jewels, precious stones, gold and silver, because we are afraid that the Arab and Kurdish bandits will attack you and take them from you. In Aleppo, we will return them to you.'
Operation Bolero Paprika, the wiped out roundup
"France is starting to face certain problems with its colonies. It needs to be able to go through Spain as well to get closer to it. And so there is also a kind of negotiation that is made between the French government and Franco. Franco does not appreciate having guerrillas on his border and I think that this also contributes to this decision to expel a certain number of Spanish communists."
Translation, a bridge between languages and eras
"Translation is more than just the transfer of words from one language to another. It is a bridge that transcends linguistic and temporal barriers, allowing voices from the past to resonate in the present. Each act of translation is an invitation to explore the different cultural and contextual nuances that surround a text, and to capture the complexity of emotions and ideas it contains."
Operation Bolero Paprika, the wiped out roundup
"France is starting to face certain problems with its colonies. It needs to be able to go through Spain as well to get closer to it. And so there is also a kind of negotiation that is made between the French government and Franco. Franco does not appreciate having guerrillas on his border and I think that this also contributes to this decision to expel a certain number of Spanish communists."
The committed look of Camille Martin Juan
Photojournalism has a unique power: to visually document events, situations and living conditions around the world. By capturing authentic and often moving images, these forms of visual journalism offer an unparalleled perspective on historical events, humanitarian crises, conflicts and other aspects of everyday reality.
