Resonance Spiral
The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks feminism on...
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We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and...
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Shot during an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) seminar in Berlin, a group fluxuates between guided meditation and discussion on consciousness...
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The first image is in black and white, upside down and projected into a black box that then becomes the frame. It now hovers like a time capsule...
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Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal. Since...
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In Cacheu, Filipa César once again applies the economic technique of using a single shot – letting a 16mm film roll to the end – without editing...
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"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film...
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An experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.
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The film INSERT was conceived has part of MEMOGRAMA by Filipa César, an installation that approaches the history of Castro Marim, a village in the...
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The lighthouse, as a man-made object built to shed light into the dark unknown, encapsulates perfectly the desires of the Enlightenment project of...
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The Portuguese colonial past is actualized through performance.
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In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the...
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Often underestimated as such, the anti-colonial wars of liberation were also large scale educational endeavours. Consider the educational...
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The film-essay Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean agronomist Amílcar Cabral, who studied soil erosion in the Alentejo region of Portugal...
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In Porto, 1975 the subjective viewpoint of the camera takes us through another emblematic example of Portuguese history from the 1970s, thanks to a...
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