31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

THE EMBASSY

THE EMBASSY
by Filipa César
Country: Portugal
Year: 2011
Duration: 27'


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

“The Embassy deals with the codes of representation used by the former Portuguese colonial power over the West African country Guinea-Bissau and with modes of memory production. It shows a photo album depicting the perspective of the Portuguese colonist, who photographed with documentary diligence landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the 1940s and 1950s. At the same time, this photo display – grabbed, flipped through and re-framed by the hands of the Guinean archivist Armando Lona – is the departure point for a multi-layered narration on the history of these two countries.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA, FOTOGRAFIA, MONTAGGIO, PRODUTTORE
Filipa César 
SCENEGGIATURA
Armando Lona, Filipa César
SUONO
Nuno da Luz
INTERPRETE 
Armando Lona
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