Researchers associated to GI Empires Research Group relate to cinema in multiple ways.
Some do research on films, participate in film productions as director or screenwriter, organise and comment on films in public screenings in different contexts (commercial, independent cinema, and in the academic context).
Organised by years and decades of film productions
2022
A Africologista (73 min, Cape Vert), film by Valério Lopes, Session of Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual. Trailer above.
2022
Red Africa (65 min, Rússia, Portugal), documentary by Alexander Markov. Session at ICS-ULisboa. Trailer above.
2021
Visões do Império (93 min, Portugal), documentary by Joana Pontes. Filipa Lowndes Vicente developed the script. Trailer above.
2010-2019
2019
Pássaros de Verão (120 min, Colombia), fiction by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra. Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual took place at Cinema Ideal. Trailer above.
2019
Moçambique: Independência e Nação (6 min, Brazil), disssemination video, about namesake exhibtion curated by Matheus Serva Pereira.
2018
Our Africa (45 min, Rússia), documentary by Alexander Markov. Session at ICS-ULisboa. Trailer above.
2017
Primavera das Mulheres (70 min, Brazil), documentary by Antonia Pellegrino and Isabel Nascimento e Silva presented at ICS, organised by Filipa Lowndes Vicente. Trailer above.
2016
Making a Living in the Dry Season/Fazer pela Vida na Estação Seca (35 min, Angola), documentary film by Inês Ponte. Trailer above.
2016
O Dia em que Explodiu Mabata-Bata (53 min, Mozambique), fiction by Sol de Carvalho at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual. Trailer above.
2016
127 Frames or 34 Scenes from Nelisita (15 min, Portugal), experimental short by Inês Ponte based on Ruy Duarte de Carvalho.
2016
Kabuka Playing Dolls (6 min, Angola), experimental by Inês Ponte at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual.
2016
Baluarte (8 min, Portugal), fiction by Pedro Figueiredo Neto at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual.
2016
Supergirl (90 min, EUA), documentary by Jessie Auritt, at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual. Trailer above.
2016
Cartas da Guerra (105 min, Portugal), fiction by Ivo Ferreira. Introduced by Inês Ponte at ICS Annual Conference 2017 “Global Imperial Wars”. Trailer above.
2015
Independência (105 min, Angola), documentary by Fradique. Film programme articulated with the exhibition “The Kept War”. Trailer above.
2014
Na Dobra da Capulana (30 min, Mozambique), a documentary by Camilo de Sousa and Isabel Noronha at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual . Trailer above.
2012
Tabu (120 min, Portugal), a fiction by Miguel Gomes. Nuno Domingos participated on book launch about Portuguese Cinema where Tabu was screened. Domingos also has written about the film. Trailer above.
2011
Alda e Maria: por aqui tudo bem (94 min, Portugal, Angola), a fiction by Pocas Pascoal, discussed at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual. Trailer above.
2011
Quem Vai à Guerra (123 min, Portugal), a documentary by Marta Pessoa, discussed with Maria José Lobo Antunes at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual. Trailer above.
2010
Eyes Shut (59 min, Iceland), a documentary by Clement Dorival and Christophe Pons, discussed with João Vasconcelos at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual. Trailer above.
2010
O Fado é Bom Demais (33 min, Brazil), documentary by José Machado Pais at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual.
2000-2009
2008
Mãe dos Netos (7 min, Mozambique), animation by Isabel Noronha and Vivian Altman, at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual.
2007
Ngwenya, o crocodilo (90 min, Mozambique), a documentary by Isabel Noronha, at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual.
2007
Deus Não Quis (15 min, Portugal), a short fiction by António Ferreira. Film programme articulated with the exhibition “The Kept War”. Trailer above.
2006
Junod (46 min, Mozambique), a documentary by Camilo de Sousa, discussed by Matheus Serva Pereira at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual.
2001
Com Quase Nada (61 min, Cabo Verde, Portugal), documentary by Margarida Cardoso and Carlos Barroca. Educational Booklet by Inês Ponte, 2021 (PNC: National Plan for Cinema]. Trailer above.
2000
Natal 71 (61 min, Portugal), documentary by Margarida Cardoso. Film programme articulated with the exhibition “The Kept War”. Excerpt above.
ANOS 90
1997
Cães Sem Coleira (61 min, Portugal), doc-fiction by Rosa Coutinho Cabral. Screening at Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Small Cinemas, Small Spaces Conference. Trailer above.
ANOS 80
1989
O Processo do Rei (91 min, Portugal), fiction by João Mário Grilo. Screening and commentary by Ângela Barreto Xavier (programme here). Trailer above.
1982
Nelisita (64 min, Angola), fiction by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho. Inspired an archival-based remake (2016), and an article by Inês Ponte discusses it
ANOS 70
1979
Oficios (29 min, Angola), documentary by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Screened and discussed by Inês Ponte at Museu Regional da Huila, Lubango, Angola, November, 2019
1979
O Kimbanda Kambia (41 min, Angola), documentary by Ruy Duarte. Screened at Jornadas de Saúde Mental, ISPTundavala, Huila, Angola.
1978
Portugal: a Past in Search of a Future (28 min, Portugal), documentary by Douglas Wheeler. In 2019, Wheeler wrote a reflection about its production, after a screening moderated by Filipa Vicente.
1975
Uma Festa para Viver (35 min, Angola), documentary by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho. See here for screening at ISPTundavala, November, 2019