The first cultural act of the nascent Mozambique Government after independence in 1975 was to create the National Institute of Cinema (INC). The new president Samora Machel had a strong awareness of the power of the image, and understood he needed to use this power to build a socialist nation. INC's goal was to film the people, and to deliver these images back to the people.
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Jon Jost takes us to the border of what film can be. It’s an open project that doesn’t attempt to make any statement, but stresses its materials as a composer would his music, using space, color, time. The filmmaker insists that his electronic cinema“ is a return to an authentic way of seeing. We took his word that his material is documentary, i.e. taken from reality, not dram...
Joaquim Sapinho went to Bosnia after the war ended, in 1996, when the Dayton Peace Accord was being implemented. Bosnia had been divided in two entities, which separated the two main opposing forces of the conflict; the Serb Bosnians and the Muslim Bosnians.
This movie is a diary of the two voyages, in which Joaquim dealt with the memories of the war, the death and destruction,...
Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
Where is our house Which is our real house The Lisbon one The Porto one The theatre one The film one How are we to embrace the whole world from our house I find myself looking for you: for the Luís Miguel Cintra I knew, the one from the past. And you look for another one who is different from you, different from the image the others make of you. You use to say I came up ...
Pedro Costa’s 2006 installation Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female is made up of additional footage from In Vanda’s Room and Colossal Youth. Interior and exterior spaces in Fountainhas are set side by side. Editing the images is left up to the viewer.