Also Known as Jihadi

Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young mans journey from France to Syria and back to France where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh Based on real events and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents the work employs the socalled landscape theory fukeiron in Japanese The characters paths to radicalism are rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject a biography determined not by what the subject did but by what the subject saw and one that questions how these landscapes reflect the social and political structures that are the backdrop for a journey of alienation and return