Resonance Spiral
Synopsis
The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks feminism on tape, the directors speak in the mangroves about the contradictions of depicting the community. [74 BERLINALE - Forum]Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical and situated beginnings of an anti-colonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed in the traditional community of the militant filmmaker Sana na N’Hada. Concepts of future are rejected to make space for what is ahead of us. Intertwining the local dreams and cine-kins’ visions, Resonance Spiral traverses moments at the newly manufactured community space in Malafo. Old plans for a videotheque are revisited and materialize a mediateca.The women from the Satna Fai association listen to forgotten voices and rest from millennia of abuse. An informal sewing workshop, an experimental garden, a bibliotera and a preschool take-up space. Adolescents voice a circle and sound self-built instruments. At the well a discussion is staged about mud medicine. Ciné-kins undermine their agencies and distrust neo-liberal slogans. Hope- hearted, seeking to flip verticalities into horizon lines, the collective slides through what lies ahead. Onshore. Abotcha. Na tchon. Humus, humans, humbled, humiliated by humanity.
Funded by the Visual Arts Project Fund of the Goethe-Institut.
Festivals/Awards
202474 BERLINALE – Forum
Cast and Crew
- Director Marinho de Pina, Filipa César