[spectre] Luta Ca Caba Inda - Conakry Premiere - Berlin - Ballhaus Naunystrasse - June 7th

[Diana McCarty]

Luta Ca Caba Inda - Conakry Premiere

You are  warmly invited to an evening of screenings, discussion and music
to celebrate the African Liberation Movement and Amilcar Cabral. With Enoka
Ayemba, Filipa César, Grada Kilomba, Diana McCarty and Manuela Sambo. Music
with DJ Zhao & Infinite Livez (reboot.fm).

June 7th, 20:00
Ballhaus Naunystrasse, Naunystr. 27
Berlin

"Luta Ca Caba Inda" (Creole T. The Struggle Is Not Over Yet), is an homage
to the African Liberation Movement and Amilcar Cabral, based on recovered
archival film material. The short film “Conakry,” (by Filipa César with
Grada Kilomba & Diana McCarty, 2012) is a 16 mm single shot film and part
of this homage. "Conakry" travels through time, space and media to revisit
the political landscape of Guinea Bissau. Staged at the Haus der Kulturen
der Welt in Berlin and based on 70s archival images of the Conakry Congress
at the Palais du Peuple shot by Flora Gomes, Sana na N’Hada, Josefina Crato
and José Cobumba Bolama, the film layers fictional media accounts of the
archive, subjective readings of the images, and questions the role of these
images, post-African liberation. César invited the Portuguese writer Grada
Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the
images and their history. "Conakry" describes and exposes how accessing
almost forgotten footage of militant imaginary can be an instrument for
recovering memory.

The project “Luta ca caba inda” was initially about finding and making
accessible the remains of this short phase of militant cinema in
Guinea-Bissau. In collaboration with two of the filmmakers involved – Flora
Gomes and Sana na N’Hada – and with the collaboration of the National Film
and Audio Visual Institute of Guinea-Bissau. César worked for the
preservation and digitalisation of the archival material. The homage to
Amilcar Cabral also traces the paths of the filmmakers Flora Gomes, Sana na
N’Hada, Josefina Crato and José Columba Bolama, all of whom were trained at
the ICAIC (Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos) between
1967 and 1972 at Cabral’s behest.

After independence in 1974, Guinea-Bissau experienced a short-lived
socialist phase that ended in a military coup in 1980. Most of the footage
the young filmmakers had shot throughout the country since 1972 remained
unedited raw material, which, in the context of the country’s unstable
political situation, was soon forgotten and, as a result, much of it was
left to disappear or disintegrate over time.


Film Program:

Conakry (Premiere!)
D 2012, 10‘20“, von Filipa César in Zusammenarbeit mit Grada Kilomba und
Diana McCarty

Cuba
2012, 10‘24‘,‘ von Filipa César in Zusammenarbeit mit Carlos Vaz, Joanna
Barrios und Suleimane Biai

O Regresso de Amílcar Cabral
1977, 31’, von José Cobumba, Josefina Crato, Flora Gomes und Sanana N’Hada

An event by Filipa César, Grada Kilomba and Diana McCarty, in cooperation
with Kultursprünge Ballhaus Naunynstraße GmBH. Luta Ca Caba Inda is made
possible through the the collaboration of the National Film and Audio
Visual Institute of Guinea-Bissau  and the support of the Arsenal -
Institute for Film and Video Art, as part of the Living Archive Project.


Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt.

Der Kurzfilm Conakry ist Teil des Projektes Luta Ca Caba Inda, das das fast
vergessene militante Kino in Guinea-Bissau während der Zeit des
Unabhängigkeitskrieges reflektiert und an dessen zentrale Figur Amílcar
Cabral erinnert. Inszeniert und gedreht im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in
Berlin auf der Grundlage von Archivbildern aus den 70er Jahren von Flora
Gomes, Sana na N’Hada, Josefina Crato und José Bolama Cobumba, legt der
Film fiktionale Medien, Archivmaterial und subjektive Lesarten der Bilder
übereinander und hinterfragt ihre Rolle in der Zeit nach der afrikanischen
Befreiungsbewegung. Er zeigt, wie der Zugriff auf fast vergessene Aufnahmen
des militanten Imaginären ein Instrument zur Wiederherstellung von
Erinnerung sein kann. Im Anschluß werden die im Rahmen des Projektes zuvor
entstandenen Filme Cuba und O Regresso de Amílcar Cabral gezeigt und in
einer Podiumsdiskussion mit der Regisseurin Filipa César, der
Schriftstellerin Grada Kilomba, der Radioaktivistin Diana McCarty und
Gästen weiter diskutiert. Die Künsterinnen laden anschließend zum Feiern
mit DJ Zhao u.a. ein!

Eine Veranstaltung von Filipa César, Grada Kilomba und Diana McCarty in
Kooperation mit Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Arsenal – Institut für Film und
Videokunst e.V.
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