Taking statues that are stored today at the Cacheu fortress, one of the first establishments for the slave trade in Guinea Bissau, César’s single-shot 16mm film traces historical moments when these represented symbolic conflicts, pointedly invoking Chris Marker, Alexander Kluge and Alain Renais.
Also in this combined programme
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Zwazo
Hinting at Pasolini, under the watchful presence of a vulture and an eagle, transposing ancient Greece to Haiti and asking enough questions in between -
Luís
A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet. -
Na escama do dragão
Liberal doses of pirates and swimming pools on a journalist and cameraman’s trip to Macau, which till 1999 was Europe’s last remaining colony in China
Film details
- Countries of production
- Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
