Country: Portugal, Guinea-Bissau
Year: 2012
Duration: 10'


Biography

film director

Filipa Cesar

Felipa César (Porto, Portugal, 1975) is an artist and filmmaker. She studied art in Porto and Lisbon, where she graduated in fine arts. She then left Portugal and moved to Berlin, where she attended the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television and earned a master’s degree at the Academy of Arts. With her experimental projects from 2008, she started working on Portugal’s recent history, and from 2011 she launched in a series of researches on Guinea-Bissau’s film history. Her works have been presented in major film festivals, including the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, DocLisboa, and have been displayed in several exhibitions and art galleries, like the Serralves Foundation in Porto, the Tate Modern in London, and the São Paulo Art Biennial.

FILMOGRAFIA

Rapport (cm, doc., 2007), Allee der Kosmonauten (cm, doc., 2007), Le passeur (cm, doc., 2008), The Four Chambered Heart (cm, doc., 2009), Insert (cm, doc., 2010), Memograma (cm, doc., 2010), Porto, 1975 (cm, doc., 2010), The Embassy (cm, doc., 2011), Cuba (cm, doc., 2012), Cacheu (cm, doc., 2012), Conakry (cm, doc., 2013), Mined Soil (cm, doc., 2014), Transmission from the Liberated Zones (cm, doc., 2015), Spell Reel (doc., 2017).

Declaration

film director

“Cacheu is a 10 minute shot of a lecture, performed by Joana Barrios, revolving around four colonial statues, which are stored today at the Fortress of Cacheu, one of the first bastions constructed by the Portuguese in 1588 in order to facilitate slave trade in the West African country of Guinea Bissau. Barrios evokes symbolic conflicts by tracing back different contexts in which the statues make an appearance: on a pedestal during Portuguese colonialism, dethroned and broken in pieces after Independence in the film Sans Soleil by Chris Marker, as background ghosts in Mortu Nega by Flora Gomes, and finally displayed at the Cacheu fort. The montage is a process that takes place before shooting, so that the image production is a result of a performative assemblage between text, acting, projected image and the framing of the camera by the director of photography, Matthias Biber.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, PRODUTTORE
Filipa César 
FOTOGRAFIA
Matthias Biber 
SUONO
Nuno da Luz
INTERPRETE
Joana Barrios 
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