Mueda, Memória E Massacre (Mueda, Memory And Massacre) Film
Ruy Guerra | Mozambique 1979 | 1h20m | Portuguese with English subtitles | 15
Synopsis
Lost until 2009, when it was rediscovered in Maputo’s archives, Mueda, Memória e Massacre by Ruy Guerra is a central work of Cinema Novo. Generally considered to be the first fiction feature film from independent Mozambique, it is a masterpiece of anti-colonial memory. The film shows a public reenactment staged by non-professionals of the massacre in Mueda (a city in northern Mozambique) carried out by the Portuguese in 1960. This event triggered the armed resistance in Mozambique and was remembered regularly by means of popular reenactments.
Catarina Simao, Portuguese artist, curator and filmmaker, worked with Ruy Guerra and Arsenal (Institut für Film und Videokunst) in Berlin on restoring the film. She will be in attendance at the screening to introduce the film. Our partners of the Instituto Camões at the University of Edinburgh are generously sponsoring this screening and will lead the Q&A with Catarina.
This screening is part of AiM’s focus on Africa’s Lost Classics, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).