What's Left Of The American Dream? Prologue: Self-portrait with America | ALL IDENTITIES COMBINED

Before it was a country, America was first a light for Walid. Projected into his child’s eyes by a white-edged cathode-ray television set, in the Val-de-Marne.

It was not yet a dream. But it was already a refuge: the world of TV shows, cartoons, ordinary heroes who, one day, are given the chance to reveal who they truly are. Then, one evening in January 1991, the programme is interrupted. Baghdad appears on screen, war enters the family living room, and history stops having only one version.

Later would come hip-hop, the aftermath of 9/11, the first trip to New York, Obama, Trump. And one question that never went away: what remains of that childhood light Walid had mistaken for America?
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What’s Left of the American Dream? / Que reste-t-il du rêve américain ? is a bilingual documentary series by Walid Hajar Rachedi. Set in Atlanta — the city of Martin Luther King Jr., a “Black Mecca” and a new crossroads of migration — during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term in 2025, it explores the stories of those who still live the American Dream, those who question it, and those who never believed in it.

Episode sound edit and mix: Laura Taouchanov



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