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The Embassy

In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.

37m2011

Portuguese

Crew and Cast

Storyline

In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.

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Info

Original title
A Embaixada
Status
Released
Released
26 March 2011
Runtime
37m

Production

Director
Filipa César
Countries
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal

Languages

Original
Portuguese
Spoken
Portuguese