"CONAKRY" by Filipa César, Grada Kilomba and Diana McCarty

Staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, CONAKRY is a sequence shot on 16mm film that travels through time, space and media to revisit one film reel from the Guinean archive Instituto Nacional de Cinema e Audiovisual (National Institut for Cinema and Audiovisual, INCA). This particular reel documents an exhibition curated by Amílcar Cabral at the Palais du Peuple (People’s Palace) in 1972 in Conakry, which reported the state of the war against Portuguese colonial rule. For the film, César invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on these images and their history.

'CONAKRY' by Filipa César, Grada Kilomba e Diana McCarty
16 mm film transferred to HD, colour, sound, 10’ 26’’
Directed by Filipa César; Written and Performed by Grada Kilomba and Diana McCarty; Photography by Matthias Biber; Sound by Didio Pestana and Nuno da Luz; Produced by Johanna Höhemann and Marta Leite; Assistant Director: Marta Leite; Gaffer: Norio Takasugi;
Set photography by Diana Artus


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