| Summary: | Zineb Sedira’s Mother Tongue video triptych (2003) appears as the minimal looping of an anecdote, the story of a school day transmitted between three generations in a same family. It seems that beyond the obvious factuality, what is presented is a common family memory in the making, a shared intimacy, as much as the representation of a gap between generations and between languages. In what is said and what is shown, this change from representation to presentation is solved through the analysis of an utterance, the polyphony of which nullifies a supposed paradox in the very heart of the definition of memory, a kind of familiarity in unfamiliarity.
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