Rita Macedo
Portuguese filmmaker and video artist based in Berlin. Fascinated by the poetic affinity between moving images and fluxes of thought, Rita’s works often operate within the realm of documentary and speculative fiction, with a focus on meaning, memory and history. Her films have been shown at numerous festivals.
Past events
- 16.10.2021, 17:30 - 20:00, Kino Zamek, The European Competition Block 2
Films
- Weeks of sand, months of ash, years of dust / Semanas de areia, meses de cinza, anos de pó20
Through the form of a personal yet distant essay film, “Weeks of sand, months of ash, years of dust” introduces Macao, a former Portuguese colony handed over back to China in 1999. Having partly grown up in Macao, the filmmaker revisits the learned history of this territory from a Portuguese perspective, addressing post-imperial forms of disavowed political affect alongside the progressing dementia of her own mother.
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