[resource-net] Fwd: Reminder today at 19h LUTA CA CABA INDA at ARSENAL

[Diana McCarty]

Hello All,

Not explicitly digital - but the work with this archive is quite amazing!
Hope to see some of you tonight!

best,

Diana

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Filipa Cesar <cesarfilipa at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Subject: Reminder today at 19h LUTA CA CABA INDA at ARSENAL
To: filipa cesar <cesarfilipa at gmail.com>


Dear friends and comrades,

In the context of my project Luta ca caba inda
and in collaboration with Sana na N'Hada and Tobias Hering, I'm very
happy to invite you to attend the events listed down.

Looking forward.

Best wishes,
Filipa César


* sorry for crossposting *



Arsenal Cinema, Berlin

Screening and talk

Specters of Freedom: Cinema and Decolonialization 2 (Living Archive Programme)

Tuesday, November 27, 6.30pm and 9pm

Wednesday, November 28, 7pm and 9pm

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Jeu de Paume, Paris

Screening and talk

Saturday, December 01, 2-4pm

Exhibition

Luta ca caba inda

October 16 2012 - January 20 2013

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The Showroom, London

Screening and talk

Saturday, December 08 2012, 3–7pm



Luta ca caba inda – The struggle is not over yet

A series of screening programmes by Filipa César, in collaboration
with Tobias Hering and Sana na N’Hada, of excerpts from the film and
raw footage archived at the INCA (National Film and Audiovisual
Institute, Guinea-Bissau).

Originally focussing on the influential role Amílcar Cabral (the
leader of the liberation movement against Portuguese colonialism in
Guinea-Bissau, 1961–1974) played in the cinematic culture of
Guinea-Bissau, Filipa César’s long-term research project has moved
towards tracing the paths of the filmmakers Flora Gomes, Sana na
N’Hada, Josefina Crato and José Columba Bolama, all of whom were
trained at the ICAIC (Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria
Cinematográficos) between 1967 and 1972 at Cabral’s behest. After
independence in 1974, Guinea-Bissau experienced a short-lived
socialist phase that ended in a military coup in 1980. Most of the
footage the young filmmakers had been shooting throughout the country
since 1973 remained unedited raw material, which, in the context of
the country’s unstable political situation, was soon forgotten and, as
a result, much of it was left to disappear or disintegrate over time.

The project Luta ca caba inda was initially about finding – within the
INCA archive – and making accessible the remains of this short phase
of militant cinema in Guinea-Bissau. In collaboration with two of the
filmmakers involved – Flora Gomes and Sana na N’Hada –, César was able
to ensure the preservation and digitalisation of the archival
material.  A selection of this material will now be shown for the
first time with the filmmaker Sana na N’Hada in attendance. The
programme takes the fragmentary and unfinished state of the material
as its starting point and as an impetus to think about film’s
possibilities. The role of gaps as a constitutive element of the
archive comes to the fore, yet the history of the archive, to which it
is undoubtedly indebted, remains in view. By showing rough cuts and
unfinished work alongside subsequently realised films or films
produced elsewhere, an outline of the cinema of decolonisation in
Guinea-Bissau comes into focus. Seven years of developing a new cinema
came to nothing when the fruits of these labours were boxed up, never
to be shown again.

Filipa César, Sana na N’Hada and curator Tobias Hering will present
elements of César’s ongoing research in the context of shared
questions around archival practice, the complexities of disseminating
archival footage and its involvement in politics and history. The
programme will include films and unedited footage from the national
film archive in Bissau, which – due to the combined efforts of Filipa
César, filmmakers and archivists in Bissau, the German Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art,
Berlin – was recently digitised in Berlin for long-term preservation.

The programme proposes a contemporary narrative on these images and
their mode and context of production. Ultimately chemical processes
such as “vinegar syndrome”, which afflict the film strips, seem to
shape the story, but this is also a narrative in which technical,
political and economical factors have contributed to conditions of
visibility. The footage salvaged from the Bissau archive shall be
presented as surviving, and therefore alive – as traces of a complex
history in which politics, ideologies, personal ambitions and
disappointments have come together to bring about a singular use of
cinema and imagery.

The presentation of Luta ca caba inda is a collaboration between
Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin), Jeu de Paume
(Paris), The Showroom (London) and ZDB (Lisbon). The project is
supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) and the
Federal Republic of Germany Foreign Office.



Further information

Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Potsdamer Straße 2 | 10785 Berlin | www.arsenal-berlin.de
Alexandra Lauck | Presse Living Archive
030 26955 110 | alauck at arsenal-berlin.de
Markus Ruff | Projektkoordination
030 269 55 282 | mr at arsenal-berlin.de oder livingarchive at arsenal-berlin.de


Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
F – 75008 Paris
Annabelle Floriant
Relations presse
01 47 03 13 22 / 06 42 53 04 07
annabellefloriant at jeudepaume.org


The Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
Tel: 020 7724 4300
E-mail: info at theshowroom.org

Filipa César
Potsdamer Str. 98
D-10785 Berlin
cesarfilipa at gmail.com


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