FOGO NO LODO – FIRE IN THE MUD
Catarina Laranjeiro, Daniel Barroca | Portugal 2023 | 118 min. | Balanta, Guinea Creole with English subtitles
FRIDAY, 17.05. | 9 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
In presence of Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca
The inhabitants of the village of Unal played a crucial role in Guinea-Bissau’s liberation war against Portuguese colonialism. They were the first to engage in the armed uprising against, mobilising their ancestral spirits and spiritual landowners, the Irãs, into the guerilla. From ploughing to harvesting, every gesture of the cycle of rice cultivation is a reminder of their independence. But the trauma of past oppression is still deeply inscribed in their rituals, bodies, and landscapes.
FOGO NO LODO takes an observational approach to the complex structure of religious practices and political unrest in a community where war veterans live alongside a new generation of young people, who are claiming their future in contemporary Guinea-Bissau.
Directors: Catarina Laranjeiro, Daniel Baroca
Cinematography: Daniel Barroca
Editing: Catarina Laranjeiro, Daniel Baroca
Sound: Didio Pestana
Production: Rui Ribeiro, Ansgar Schaefer
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
Doclisboa 2023, October 22, World Premiere.
Award for Best Film Dealing with Cultural and Traditional Practices as well as Intangible Cultural Heritage
BIOGRAPHIES
Catarina Laranjeiro is a visual anthropologist holding a Ph.D. in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship. In the last ten years, she has researched the relationship between cinema and cosmological images during the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau, also part of her master thesis short film“Pabia di Aos” (2013). Currently, she is conducting a six-year research project about vernacular film production in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and their diasporas in Europe.
Daniel Barroca works in the intersection between fine arts, film and historical anthropology. His current Ph.D. research is focused on the afterlives of war images in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau. He is the author of expanded cinema installations like Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard (2008) and … a hazy and confusing landscape (2009). He was a resident artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; and Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York.
