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:
// Festival FIDMarseille, section out of competition “Hors les murs”,
“Anthropofolies”, 2010.
// Marmara International Triennial, Istanbul, 2010.
// New Filmmaker’s Summer Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2010.
// FUSO - International Festival of Videoart Lisbon, 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, Ecuador, 2009.
Award for Best Film at FUSO - International Festival of Videoart Lisbon, 2010.
Synopsis: A sequence of 8 mm familiar footage is the point of departure of a video about my relationship with an imaginary territory – the town of Muidumbe, in Mozambique, in 1960. I transformed myself into my grandmother to explore and deconstruct the discursive lapses between text and image and to search for the signs of an obsessive territory.
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