Film screenings: Spell Reel & O Regresso de Amilcar Cabral

Postgraduate Researcher Tom Vickery will introduce two films at Hyde Park Picture House, as part of the Tuesday Wonders documentary film programme.

This event is a screening of two films, reflecting the work of Luta Ca Caba Inda (The Struggle is not Over Yet) – an ongoing, experimental arts project, embarked on by a cine-collective involving artist Filipa César, and filmmakers, Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes. The project seeks to digitise and re-animate the nearly destroyed archive of anti-colonial cinema shot in Guinea-Bissau during the 1970s.
 
Spell Reel (2017) follows the progression of this collaborative process, watching as the digitised material is toured by mobile cinema, engaging the public in a considered entanglement of past and present to raise questions of the living archive’s role in contemporary questions of coloniality, memory and representation.
 
O Regresso de Amílcar Cabral / The Return of Amílcar Cabral (1976) is the only remaining feature film from the period within the archive of the National Film Institute of Guinea-Bissau (INCA). Created three years following the assassination of the revolutionary leader, the film records the transferral of Cabral’s remains from Conakry to Bissau. It will be screened as an optional event following the conclusion of Spell Reel (2017).
 
The two films will begin with a short introduction by Tom Vickery, Postgraduate Researcher in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Tom is researching the proactive historic imaginary within the deployment of archival material across Luta Ca Caba Inda’s many contemporary iterations.

Tom has been working with Cinema Africa! x Hyde Park Picture House to screen Spell Reel (2017) and O Regresso de Amilcar Cabral (1976) as part of the Tuesday Wonders documentary film programme.

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Venue

Hyde Park Picture House
73 Brudenell Road
Leeds LS6 1JD

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Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds. Image © University of Leeds.