What remains of the 1940s and 1950s collective memory of Mindelo's two cinemas, and the two amateur groups who produced three 8mm films out of their love for cinema.
Direction
Blaufuks weaves personal memory with collective history.
Production
Those brittle 8mm frames — cinema as fragile archaeology.
Director
Daniel Blaufuks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mindelo was Cape Verde's cultural capital under Portuguese rule, yet its cinema history remains barely documented — this film essentially invents the archive.
The 'Cineclube do Mindelo' and 'Grupo Amador de Cinema' operated during Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, making their 8mm experiments quietly subversive acts.
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