• Resonance Spiral
  • Resonance Spiral
  • Resonance Spiral
  • Mined Soil

Resonance Spiral

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    Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and community organizer. Since 2011, César has been collectively researching the militant cinema practice of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea-Bissau, through the production of workshops, archives, films, performances, publications, and community gatherings.

Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical and situated beginnings of an anticolonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed in the traditional community of the militant filmmaker Sana na N’Hada. Intertwining the local dreams and cine-kins’ visions, Resonance Spiral traverses moments at the newly manufactured community space in Malafo. Old plans for a videoteque are revisited and materialize a mediateca. The women from the Satna Fai association listen to forgotten voices and rest from millennia of abuse. An informal sewing workshop, an experimental garden, a bibliotera, and a preschool take up space. Adolescents voice a circle and sound self-built instruments. At the well a discussion is staged about mud medicine. Cine-kins undermine their agencies and distrust neo-liberal slogans. Hope-hearted, seeking to flip verticalities into horizon lines, the collective slides through what lies ahead. Onshore. Abotcha. Na tchon. Humus, humans, humbled, humiliated by humanity.

Filipa César
FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Jenny Lou Ziegel
Language
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole
  • Cape Verdean Creole
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 92 mins
Source
  • Filipa César
Preceded By

Mined Soil

Filipa César, Germany, Portugal, 2012–14

A film essay/performance on the “memory of the soil,” which explores Amílcar Cabral’s time working as an agronomist and subversive political activist.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole
  • German
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 34 mins
source
  • Video Data Bank

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