Rosinha and Other Wild Animals
Asian Premiere
Marta PESSOA Portugal 2023 102 min NC16 (Some Nudity)
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.
7 Dec, Thu 9:00PM / 102 min
Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 2
AT THE FEST!
Screening are free seating & first-come, first-serve basis.
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Rosinha and Other Wild Animals
Rosinha e Outros Bichos do Mato
Marta PESSOA
Portugal
2023
Portugese
English
102 min
NC16 (Some Nudity)
Asian Premiere
Marta PESSOA
Marta PESSOA is a director and cinematographer known for her documentaries. Her films include The Lurking Fear (2015), about the violence and repression of the Salazar regime, which won the Amnesty International Award at IndieLisboa. Rosinha and Other Wild Animals received the Árvore da Vida Award for Best Portuguese Film at IndieLisboa.
Marta PESSOA
Rita PALMA
João Pinto NOGUEIRA
Marta PESSOA
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