Memory and Ancestrality II
Black Gaze – Showcase of Black Cinema in Portugal
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Date
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out Sunday, 17:30
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianPricing
10% – Cartão Gulbenkian and Cartão Gulbenkian Mais
The films with a Black Gaze seek to recover the ancestrality that was usurped by enslavement and colonialism. Although the historic debt incurred through those crimes against humanity can never be repaid, Welket Bungué has been a consistent voice in the ongoing task of self-reparation.
In ‘Calling Cabral’ (2022), the creator combines Guinean mysticism, the poetics of simultaneity and Amílcar Cabral’s voice of resistance. From a New Year’s Eve party on the Bijagó Islands to a reunion with people and places, the film encompasses layers of language and behaviour to celebrate the historical and cultural complexity of Guinea-Bissau. The gaze emerges as writing of the self, as a window and passage; the circulating bodies reveal the centrality of movement in Bungué’s work.
In ‘Angular Phoenix’ (2024), Bungué evokes historical African figures in a narrative in which time spirals and interweaves with (and in) the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. The presence of the ‘Ebony Princess’ as a child, alongside the symbolic forces of Fire and Ash, establish a transmutational atmosphere. ‘Quilombismo’, Afro-folklorism, Afrofuturism, Afro-syncretism, Afropolitanism, animism and mysticism combine in a work that places the Black Afro-diaspora body in transit at the centre of the narrative.
Biographies
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Welket Bungué
Welket Bungué (Guinea-Bissau, 1988) is a transdisciplinary artist living in Berlin who develops projects in the areas of dramatic writing, scripts and film directing, performance and theatre. He has a degree in Theatre Acting (ESTC/Lisbon) and a post-graduate qualification in Performance (UniRio/RJ). Bungué is a member of the Portuguese Film Academy, the Deutsche Filmakademie and the European Film Academy. His work has been screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Africlap (France), Afrikamera (Berlin), BFI London and Sheffield DocFest (UK), IndieLisboa, DocLisboa and Stockholm Dansfilmfestival.
Programme
17:30 / ‘Calling Cabral’, by Welket Bungué
17:50 / ‘Angular Phoenix’, by Welket Bungué
18:10 / Talk
19:00 / Closing
Credits
‘Calling Cabral’, by Welket Bungué
Script and directing
Welket Bungué
Cast
Joãozinho da Costa
Aliu Santy
Welket Bungué
Suaila Fonseca Cá (voz off)
Director of Photography
Welket Bungué
Editing
Duarte Lima
Music
Diima
Colour correction
S. K. Camilo
Sound Design
Daniel Santos
Recording Studios
Bissilon Sound (Guiné-Bissau)
Rádio Escada (RJ - Brasil)
Sound and Image
Welket Bungué
Art Director
Welket Bungué
Translation and Subtitles
Welket Bungué
Production Assistant
Kristin Bethge
Executive Producer
Welket Bungué
Story devised by
Welket Bungué
Duarte Lima
Production
Kussa Productions
‘Angular Phoenix’, de Welket Bungué
Script and directing
Welket Bungué
Cast
Raquel Lima
Ângelo Torres
Nayrama Fernandes
Cheila Luís Trindade
Fábio Rodrigues
Welket Bungué
Assistant director
Elton Guadalupe
Production
Enerlid Franca
Welket Bungué
Executive Producer
Enerlid Franca
Direção de Produção
Enerlid Franca
Production Director
Paloma Monteiro
Joy Monteiro
Marty Pereira
Director of Sound
Dário Pequeno Paraíso
Sound Assistant
Carla Rebelo
Director of Photography
Dário Pequeno Paraíso
Photography Assistants
Carla Rebelo
Kristin Bethge
Colourisation
Sara K. Camilo
Texts
Raquel Lima
Ângelo Torres
Welket Bungué
Initial Quote
Paulo Tambá Bungué
In Cabaró, Djito Tem!
Editing
Leonardo Mouramateus
Editing Assistant
Duarte Lima
Sound Research and Music
Vagné Lima
Sound Design and Mixing
Acácia Lima
Scene Photography
Kristin Bethge
Carla Rebelo
Art Director
Welket Bungué
Make-up and Characterisation
Cleusa Aurélio
Costume Design
Mengai Glavi
Drivers
Lan Atai Seng (Lau)
Jorsimar Diogo (Duda)
Catering
Família Soares
Production Base
Museu Nacional – Forte de S. Sebastião
Facilitator
Manuel Lizarda (Diretor do Museu Nacional - Forte de S. Sebastião)
Special thanks to
Família Soares
Espaço CACAU
Muziek Mutantti NetLabel
Raphael Medeiros
Marina Bland
Media Partner
BANTUMEN
Associate Producers
Welket Bungué
Kristin Bethge
Raquel Lima
Enerlid Franca
Miryan Cassandra
Luís Ceita
Ângelo Torres
Production
KUSSA Productions
On Time Entertainment
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