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Presentation about a great film director from Guinea-Bissau.
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the only man the only man who makes films who makes films in Guinea-Bissauin Guinea-BissauBy Kris Haamer
ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
Guinea-Bissau is a country in the bottom 5 of the poorest nations of the world
ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
Gomes is making a strong statement Filmmaking is hard enough; making films in Africa – only for the completely mad
ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
Cannes select. Awards in Milan, Cardago, Ouagadougou, Zarautz, Wurzburg
Film 1: Udju Azul di YontaFilm 1: Udju Azul di Yonta
19921992
Vibrant Commercial Society. Television, shopping, fashion, nightclubs
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 1 - Udju Azul di Yonta
Broken Ideals. Revolutionary Generation: “is that the country we wanted?”
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 1 - Udju Azul di Yonta
Idealists miss love, and life’s opportunities
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 1 - Udju Azul di Yonta
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 1 - Udju Azul di Yonta
But the children keep dancing
Rejuvenation?
Selection of Cannes. Awards in Cartago, South Africa, and Creteil
Film 2: Po di SanguiFilm 2: Po di Sangui
19961996ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
This is the village of Amanha Lundju
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Turmoil. City-People cut down trees
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Dou. Finds his twin brother dead
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
And the wife alone. Brother’s Saly
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Calacalado. Mandates a quest of initiation
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Evicted ‘Forest’. People on the road of exile
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Desert Contact. Another tribe = sex
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Saly Gives Birth. Return home to roots
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
A Child Paints the Future. Rejuvenation
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Rejuvenation.
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Community Space. Village life background
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Personal Space. Expressive CU faces
Characters. Represent (entire) ethnicity
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Camera. Overhead “god-view” shots
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Camera. Fluid steadycam. Independent
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Tension. Delay before plot point
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Vis.-Cue. CU asks a question
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Vis.-Answer. Plot point, next scene
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 2 - Po di Sangui2 - Po di Sangui
Snd.-Cue. Woman cries. Cam. finds her
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT GUINEA-BISSAU?GUINEA-BISSAU?
POVERTY, POVERTY, SICKNESSSICKNESS, CIVIL , CIVIL WAR, WAR, DESTRUCTION &DESTRUCTION &
WESTERN WESTERN AID.AID.
ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
While These Things Exist, While These Things Exist, There is an Africa of Incredible BeautyThere is an Africa of Incredible Beauty
ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
Awards in Ouagadougou, Coimbra, Montreal, Amiens, and Venice
Film 3: Nha Fala
20022002
Society in Change. Where to put A. Cabral?
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 3 - Nha Fala
Vita is cursed. Can’t sing or she dies
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 3 - Nha Fala
Leaves for Europe. Finds a boyfriend
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 3 - Nha Fala
Finds a voice. Becomes a famous singer
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 3 - Nha Fala
Returns home with boyfriend – to die
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 3 - Nha Fala
And be reborn
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes: 3 - Nha Fala
Rejuvenation!
Directs & Cowrites Rebirth. Rejuvenation. Hope in Children
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
Dir. Style. Warmth. Firmness. Clarity.
Language. Feat. Kriolu – 4 of 7 films
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
Travel. Moral Change. New Beg. Initiation.
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
Question. Change in African societies?
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
Confrontation. Tradit. Africans vs. modernity
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
Clean Break w/ History. Consequences
ϒ Flora Gomes:Flora Gomes:
Portuguese scholars: Gomes makes Ethnofiction or Docufictionin the tradition of seminal documentarians Flaherty, Rouch, Oliveira
ϒ Flora GomesFlora Gomes
THANK YOU