The Embassy

(2011)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2011

Runtime: 37 мин

Country: Guinea, Guinea-Bissau

Director: Filipa César

Cast: Armando Lona

Plot

In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.