34th SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
– Singapura. Em exibição na Secção STAND POINT.
Rosinha and Other Wild Animals – Asian Premiere – 7 de Dezembro.
Marta Pessoa, Portugal, 2023, 102 min, NC16.
Da página do Festival: “Excavating the archive with reflexive inquiry, this provocative documentary confronts the lasting racist and sexist legacies of colonialism.
“Portugal is not a racist country”—the film opens; its narrators stumble, introducing a dialogical and self-critical approach as they delve into the country’s colonial archives and ambitions. Focus lands on the 1934 Portuguese Colonial Exhibition and its human zoos, highlighting disturbing images, documents and ideas that have survived. Among the colonised peoples gathered there was a Guinean woman named Rosinha, posed and photographed nude.
Who’s looking and who’s looked at? What does looking do? Rosinha’s presence and absence spark questions about the colonial, patriarchal gaze, while reconstructions and interviews take aim at ‘soft racism’ and other celebrated myths of the national imaginary that still persist.”
Publicado em: 10-11-2023