In her debut feature, artist Filipa César documents the digitization of films made in the African country around the time of its independence. César incorporates the archival footage — most of it ...

The juxtaposition between artifact and personal testimony is often embodied quite literally in these films. In Spell Reel, a recurrent motif is the picture-in-picture effect, with César superimposing ...

In 2011, an archive of film and audio material re-emerged in Bissau. On the verge of complete ruination, the footage testifies to the birth of Guinean cinema as part of the decolonising vision of ...

Filipa César directed this 2017 French/Portuguese documentary that uses footage of the 1960s Guinea-Bissau independence movement and contemporary engagements with that vintage material by surviving ...