Mined Soil and Quiet Suns
Combined programme
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IFFR 2015
Brooding meditations on hidden histories. The Otolith Group studied Pan-African movements for independence, whilst Filipa César reflects back the research carried out by Guinea-Bissau’s Amílcar Cabral onto contemporary Portugal.
In this combined programme
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Mined Soil
Alentejo, Guinea-Bissau and Cabral are intertwined in definitions of soil as a repository of exploitation, crisis, arsenal, treasure and palimpsest. -
In the Year of the Quiet Sun
The details of texture, colour and symbols on the postage stamps illustrate the fragile experience of 1950-60s African liberation in this delicate ess