Immagini pensanti. Post-memorie dell’Africa nel lungo-metraggio e nel corto-metraggio portoghese

Abstract

The article is a reflection on the relationship between images and the evocation processes. In particular, the analysis of the artistic production of colonial post-memory questions the gaps of the Portuguese past in Africa and its official representations. It focuses on a selection of feature films and short films as an expression of the relationship between memory transmission of trauma and the possibility of its representation, starting from the will to re-imagine the past in the present.

Keywords

• post-memory
• portuguese contemporary cinema
• colonial war
• interculturality
• alternative epistemologies