Granny (Muidumbe) /
Avó (Muidumbe)
10´, DV-CAM, 2009
Produced during the Video Art Course promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Creation and Creativity Programme.
Presented in the following festivals and exhibitions:
// collective exhibition “Historias Fugaces”, commissioned by María del Carmen Carrión, Centro de Arte Laboral, Gijón, 2011.
// Dockanema Film Festival, Maputo, 2011.
// “Hantologie des Colonies”, serie of screenings comissioned by Normal / Vincent Meessen and produced by Espace Khiasma, Paris, 2011.
// Festival of (In)Appropriation, Los Angeles, 2011.
// University of California Santa Barbara in the realm of Festival of (In)Appropriation’s extensions
// Atelier du Passage, Paris, 2011.
// “Noc Noc”, multidisciplinary event included in the programme of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, Guimarães, 2011.
// Videoart feature “Brás & Resende”, published in the online magazine “Magnética”.
// EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabrück, 2011.
// FIFF (Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil), 2011.
// FLEX (Florida Experimental Film / Video Festival), 2011.
// Festival FIDMarseille, section out of competition “Hors les murs”,
“Anthropofolies”, 2010.
// DocLisboa Documentary Film Festival, Lisbon, 2010.
// Anemic Festival, Prague, 2010.
// DocLisboa Festival extension in Paris, Studio des Ursulines Cinema, 2010.
// Pop-up Lisboa Festival, Lisbon, 2010.
// Marmara International Triennial, Istanbul, 2010.
// New Filmmaker’s Summer Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2010.
// FUSO - International Festival of Videoart Lisbon, 2010.
// Exhibition “25 Frames por Segundo”, Maputo, 2010.
// Summer School “Cinéma et Art Contemporain 3", Paris, 2010.
// The Australian International Experimental Festival, Melbourne, 2010.
// Screening “The Ghosts in the Eye. Experimental Documentaries”, hosted by Bianca Ahmadi and Juan David González Monroy at the 92 Y, Tribeca, New York, 2010.
// "Extranjerías Mediáticas”, programmed by Jorge La Ferla for the exhibition “Extranjerías”, commissioned by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta for the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, 2009.
// “Lisbon Revisited”, programmed by Jorge Flores Velasco and Maria del Carmen Carrión, El Pobre Diablo, Quito, 2009.
// "LAV-Arts. Casa Abierta", Laboratorio de Artes Visuales, Guayaquil, 2009.
// represented at PLMJ Foundation Art Collection.
Award for Best Film at FUSO - International Festival of Videoart Lisbon, 2010.
Synopsis: Mozambique, 1960, just before the beginning of the war, portrait of acolonial family. A sequence of archive footage filmed by my grandfather, former colonial administrator, is the point of departure for an experimental documentary on the history of the Portuguese decolonization and its memory. Double memory or memory split in two: the lived and descriptive memory of the colonizers (their texts, their images) versus the invented memory of their descendants. This film is an attempt to represent my indirect memories of Mozambique.
TECHNICAL DATA
Direction and screenplay: Raquel Schefer
Production: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Photography: Jorge Flores Velasco, Raquel Schefer
Archive footage: José Manuel Monteiro
Text: Maria Delfina Monteiro, José Manuel Monteiro, Raquel Schefer
Edition and sound design: Jorge Flores Velasco
Sound: Jorge Flores Velasco, Mónica Lima Gomes
Lab: Andec FilmTechnik
Telecinema: Pedro Maia