Mueda, Memory and Massacre

  • Mueda, Memory and Massacre
  • Mueda, Memory and Massacre
  • Makwayela
  • Nhinguitimo
  • Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024

    7 PM (116 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Mueda, Memory and Massacre

(Mueda: Memória e massacre)

Ruy Guerra
Mozambique, 1979

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featuring

Romao Canapoquele, Filipe Gunoguacala, Mauricio Machimbuco,

After independence was declared, Ruy Guerra returned to Mozambique from Brazil—where he had been a key figure in the Cinema Novo movement—and helped establish the National Film Institute. His depiction of a reenactment of the 1960 Mueda massacre, which triggered the war of independence, was the first feature-length film of Mozambican cinema. Hundreds of people were killed when Portuguese troops fired on peaceful demonstrators protesting the arrest of two exiles. Locals, including survivors who also offer testimony, participate in this regularly staged political theater, playing both the victims and the oppressors.

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Calisto Dos Lagos

Cinematographer

  • Ruy Guerra
  • Fernando Silva

Language

  • Makonde
  • Portuguese
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 75 mins

Source

  • Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art

Preceded By

Nhinguitimo

Licínio Azevedo, Mozambique, 2021

Tensions over dispossession of rural land unfold in this fictional reconstruction, as a farmworker rebels against colonizers.

FILM DETAILS

Based On

  • a story by Luís Bernardo Honwana

Language

  • Portuguese
  • Rongo
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 23 mins
source
  • Licínio Azevedo

Makwayela

Jacques d’Arthuys, Jean Rouch, France, Mozambique, 1977

Workers sing and dance as a form of protest in the only film record of the training workshops Jean Rouch and a team of filmmakers held at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.

FILM DETAILS

Language

  • Portuguese
  • with English electronic titles

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 18 mins
source
  • Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
permission
  • Comité du Film Éthnographique
permission
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Additional Info

  • 35mm Archival Print

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