Resonance Spiral

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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Mangrove School

Mangrove School

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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Rapport

Rapport

Shot during an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) seminar in Berlin, a group fluxuates between guided meditation and discussion on consciousness...

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Spell Reel

Spell Reel

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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Regulado

Regulado

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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Cacheu

Cacheu

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

Conakry

"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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Quantum Creole

Quantum Creole

An experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.

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Insert

Insert

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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Sunstone

Sunstone

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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Transmission from the Liberated Zones

Transmission from the Liberated Zones

The Portuguese colonial past is actualized through performance.

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The Embassy

The Embassy

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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Navigating the Pilot School

Navigating the Pilot School

Often underestimated as such, the anti-colonial wars of liberation were also large scale educational endeavours. Consider the educational...

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Mined Soil

Mined Soil

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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Porto, 1975

Porto, 1975

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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