The programme proposed by Maria do Carmo Piçarra extends the dialogue around Fogo no Lodo (2023) by including films that project variations on how Guinea-Bissau has been imagined. It activates a reminiscent shot/reverse shot in order to emphasise how both the film by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca and the exhibition The Floor is Lava! contribute to create an off-screen that becomes a flash. It materialises in a device that contrasts the representations of the colonial situation in amateur films – Percurso de uma família na visita à Exposição do Mundo Português (1940), and Missão Antropológica da Guiné (1958), which records a mission from 1947-48 –, shown on a monitor, with anti-colonial films on a big screen.

In 1963, Amílcar Cabral authorised the French anti-Nazi resistance fighter Mario Marret to film the anti-colonial struggle. Nossa Terra (1966) was the second film made by Marret in Guinea-Bissau, after Lala Quema, which has been lost. 

With the collaboration of Guineans trained in cinema in Cuba – Flora Gomes, Sana na N'Hada, Josefina Crato and José Bolama – No Pintcha (1979) was directed by the Italian Sergio Spina during the 3rd Independence Congress for Unity and Development, looking at a country under construction and at the legacy of five hundred years of colonialism.

PROJECTION:
Nossa Terra, 1966
Directed by Mario Marret
Sound, 35’
Association Talitha, Rennes

No Pintcha, 1979
Directed by Sergio Spina
Sound, 50’
Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo Del Movimento Operaio E Democratico Collection – AAMOD, Roma

SCREEN:
Missão Antropológica da Guiné, 1958
Unknown director
No sound, 8’
Universidade de Lisboa / Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, films collection / Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, deposited at Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, Lisbon

Percurso de Uma Família na Visita à Exposição do Mundo Português, 1940
Family film
No sound, 10’ (extract)
Luís Nunes dos Santos family collection deposited in the Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa - Videoteca (TRAÇA project), Lisbon