Spell Reel
Filipa César's Spell Reel is the result of a multifaceted research and digitisation project that she initiated in 2011 with Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes. Having studied film in Cuba, the two began using the camera to observe the fight for independence in Guinea-Bissau (1963–74). After the decaying visual and audio material was digitised in Berlin, the filmmakers travelled with a mobile cinema to the places where the footage had originally been shot and showed it to audiences for the first time, adding their own commentary. They then moved on, also returning to Berlin. Spell Reel watches an archive at work to produce the present.
Crew
Director | Filipa César |
Screenplay | Sana na N'Hada |
Cinematography | Jenny Lou Ziegel |
Editing | Filipa César |
Sound Design | Didio Pestana |
Sound | Nikolas Mühe |
Production Design | Olivier Marboeuf |
Producers | Filipa César, Oliver Marboeuf Spectre, Maria João Mayer Filmes do Tejo II |
World sales
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Produced by
Filipa César
Spectre Productions
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Additional information
Filipa César
Filipa César, born in 1975 in Porto, Portugal, is an artist and filmmaker interested in the fictional aspects of the documentary and the politics and poetics inherent to moving image. Since 2011, César has been looking into the imaginaries of Guinea-Bissau’s Liberation Movement and its cognitive potencies, developing that research into the ongoing collective project Luta ca caba inda (the struggle is not over yet). Her work is widely shown in solo and group exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Her short films Cuba and Transmission from the Liberated Zones were featured in Forum Expanded in 2013 and 2016, and in 2017 César premiered her feature-length essay film Spell Reel at the Berlinale Forum. She lives and works in Berlin.
Filmography
2007 Rapport; 16 min. · Rapport; 16 min. · Allee der Kosmonauten; 8 min. · Allee der Kosmonauten; 8 min. 2008 Le passeur; 34 min. · Le passeur; 34 min. 2009 The Four Chambered Heart; 29 min. · The Four Chambered Heart; 29 min. 2010 Insert; 10 min. · Insert; 10 min. · Memograma; 40 min. · Memograma; 40 min. · Porto, 1975; 10 min. · Porto, 1975; 10 min. 2011 The Embassy; 7 min. · The Embassy; 7 min. 2012 Cuba; 10 min., Forum Expanded 2013 · Cuba; 10 min., Forum Expanded 2013 · Cacheu; 10 min. · Cacheu; 10 min. 2013 Conakry; 10 min. · Conakry; 10 min. 2014 Mined Soil; 32 min. · Mined Soil; 32 min. 2015 Transmission from the Liberated Zones; 30 min., Forum Expanded 2016 · Transmission from the Liberated Zones; 30 min., Forum Expanded 2016 2017 Spell Reel · Spell Reel; 96 min., Forum 2017 2020 Quantum Creole; 40 min.
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020