Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker interested in the fictional aspects of the documentary, the porous borders between cinema and its reception, and the politics and poetics inherent to the moving image and imaging technologies. Since 2011, she has been researching the origins of the cinema of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea Bissau as a laboratory of resistance to ruling epistemologies. César premiered her first feature length essay-film Spell Reel at the Forum section of the 67. Berlinale, 2017. Selected exhibitions and screenings have taken place at: 29th São Paulo Biennial, 2010; Manifesta 8, Cartagena, 2010; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2011–15; Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2012; Khiasma, Paris, 2011–2015; Kunstwerke, Berlin, 2013; SAAVY Contemporary, Berlin 2014–15; Tensta konsthall, Spånga, 2015; Mumok, Vienna, 2016; Contour 8 Biennial, Mechelen and Gasworks, London; MoMA, New York, 2017.
FILMOGRAPHY
2017 – Spell Reel, 96’
2018 – Sunstone, 30’ (co-realizado com Louis Henderson)
2015 – Transmission From the Liberated Zones, 30’
2014 – A Cabana, 41’ (co-realizado com Suleimane Biai)
2013/14 – Mined Soil, 32’
2013 – Conakry, 10’ (co-realizado com Diana McCarty e Grada Kilomba)
2013 – Ways of Listening, 26’
2012 – Cacheu, 10’
2012 – Morel’s Yellow Pages, 10’
2011 – The Embassy, 27’
2010 – Porto 1975, 10’
2009 – Memograma, 40’
2009 – The Four Chambered Heart, 28’
2008 – Le Passeur, 34’
2007 – Rapport, 17’
2007 – Allee der Kosmonauten, 9’