Filipa César Movies

An experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.

The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks...

The first image is in black and white, upside down and projected into a black box that then becomes the frame. It now hovers like a time capsule near...

Shot during an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) seminar in Berlin, a group fluxuates between guided meditation and discussion on consciousness and...

We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the...

Loves are found and lost. Families disappear and start. Houses, denouements, solitude, friendship. All that we keep, and all that we leave behind....

"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm...

In Cacheu, Filipa César once again applies the economic technique of using a single shot – letting a 16mm film roll to the end –...

The Portuguese colonial past is actualized through performance.

The film INSERT was conceived has part of MEMOGRAMA by Filipa César, an installation that approaches the history of Castro Marim, a village in...

Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal....

The lighthouse, as a man-made object built to shed light into the dark unknown, encapsulates perfectly the desires of the Enlightenment project of...

Often underestimated as such, the anti-colonial wars of liberation were also large scale educational endeavours. Consider the educational strategies...

In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in...

The film-essay Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean agronomist Amílcar Cabral, who studied soil erosion in the Alentejo region of...

In Porto, 1975 the subjective viewpoint of the camera takes us through another emblematic example of Portuguese history from the 1970s, thanks to a...