Conferência internacional: Lutas de libertação, a "queda do império” e o nascimento [em imagens] das nações africanas

Teve lugar nos dias 27 e 28 de janeiro, em Londres, a conferência internacional "Lutas de libertação, a 'queda do império' e o nascimento [em imagens] das nações africanas". O evento, que decorreu no Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading (no dia 27), e no Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture, King's College of London(no dia 28), foi coordenado pela investigadora do CECS, Maria do Carmo Piçarra, tendo estado o CECS associado à organização da iniciativa. O quadragésimo aniversário da descolonização portuguesa de África foi o pretexto para debater como Portugal "imaginou" a política colonial através da imagem em movimento e como as representações propagandistas começaram a ser questionadas pelo Novo Cinema português, em obras que foram censuradas e proibidas.

Programa
27th January 2016
Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading, Reading
10h-10h45 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102
Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Lisboa/Minho/Reading) – Colonial reflections: Aleph as an action-research platform to criticize colonial imaginaries

11h00-13h00 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102
Panel I (De)constructing the projection of African nations through cinema
Chair: Alexandre Figueiroa (Recife)

Paulo Cunha (Coimbra) – Cinephilia and film culture in the "Portuguese Africa": film societies and amateur film
Raquel Schefer (Paris) -Mueda, Memory and Massacre by Ruy Guerra and the cultural forms of the Mueda Plateau
Catarina Laranjeiro (Coimbra) – In the past the future was better

13h00-14h30 Lunch break

14h30- 16h30 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102
Panel II Memory and gazes upon the "colonial archive"
Chair: Tiago de Luca (Liverpool)

Lúcia Nagib (Reading) – Colonialism as atmosphere in Tabu and The murmuring coast
Nuno Barradas Jorge (Nottingham) – To die a thousand deaths: historical memory and the representation of personal narratives in the cinema of Pedro Costa
Teresa Castro (Paris) – The afterwardness of the colonial image: artists-researchers and the Portuguese colonial archive

16h30-17h30 – Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102
Presentation of Daniel Barroca's work by Teresa Castro
Drawing and undrawing images and memories by Daniel Barroca

18h00-20h30 Cinema, Minghella Building G4
Presentation by Nuno Barradas Jorge
Cavalo dinheiro (Horse money, Pedro Costa, 2015)
Projection and debate with the Portuguese Film Archive – Museum of Cinema director, José Manuel Costa, and the director of CFAC, Lúcia Nagib.

28th January 2016
Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture, King's College London, King's Building
9h-9h30 Registration and welcome

9h30-10h45 River Room – King's Building
Chair: João Paulo Silvestre (London)
9h30-10h Lee Grieveson (London) Colonial Film – moving images of the British empire
10h15-10h45 José Manuel Costa (Portuguese Film Archive – Museum of Cinema director) Colonial collection of the Portuguese Film Archive. Shot, reverse shot, off-screen

10h45-11h Coffee break

11h-13h River Room – King's Building
Panel III The birth [through images] of African nations
Chair: Teresa Castro (Paris)
Ros Gray (London) – Attempts at a paradigm shift: filmmaking in the Mozambican revolution
Robert Stock (Konstanz) The many returns to Wiriyamu. Testimony and filmic negotiations of colonial violence
Maíra Zenun de Oliveira (Goiás, Lisboa) – FESPACO and decolonization: on the persistence of freedom (post-colonial) fight through the biggest and most ancient African film festival
Maria-Benedita Basto (Paris) – From the colonial to the imperial archive: transnational resistances and decolonizations of the image in India by António Faria and Acto dos feitos da Guiné by Fernando Matos Silva

11h-13h Small Committee Room – King's Building
Panel IV (Post-)colonial filmic representations
Chair: Paulo Cunha (Coimbra)

Rosa Cabecinhas, Isabel Macedo, Ana Cristina Pereira (Minho) – Cinema, Memory and Intercultural Dialogue: (post)-colonial representations
Pedro Andrade (Minho) – Postcolonial hybrid meanings within resistance cinema
Katy Stewart (Sheffield) – Reclaiming the archive: contesting history and memory in Zézé Gamboa's O grande Kilapy
Jorge Cruz, Leandro Mendonça (Rio de Janeiro) – Cinemas in Portuguese language: a methodological proposal

13h-14h00 Lunch break

14h-16h River Room – King's Building
Panel V – Propaganda and liberation struggles: foreign gazes
Chair: Catarina Laranjeiro (Coimbra)

Raquel Ribeiro (Edinburgh) – Angola, independent nation through the Cuban (filmic) gaze
Iolanda Vasile (Timisoara) – The party, the leader, Romania: colonialism and independence within the Socialist Republic of Romania photographic frame
Afonso Ramos (London) – ‘Rarely penetrated by camera or film': revisiting the first documentary about the Portuguese Colonial War, NBC's Angola: a journey to war

14h-16h Small Committee Room – King's Building
Panel VI – (De)construction of the "colonial archive": artistic practices
Chair: Raquel Schefer (Paris)

Ana Balona de Oliveira (Lisboa) – Decolonization in, of and through the archival ‘moving images' of artistic practice
Hugo Dinis (Lisboa) – Notes on the other
Ricardo Mendonça, Lisandra Mendonça (Lisboa) – The postcolonial de(construction) of Portuguese overseas memorials

16h-16h30 Coffee break

16h30-17h30 Council Room – King's Building
Luta ca caba inda (The struggle is not over yet)
Presentation of collective project by Filipa César