✓  28 january, 15h30

Auditório do Museu do Aljube

Independência (105’), Fradique, 2015

After more than 40 years, this documentary finds and reveals the past in maps, photographs, documents, newspapers and, above all, in living memories. The film is made from the point of view of the generation that participated in the liberation struggle and who share their memories with us. With the feet firmly in the present, this Angolan production looks back and reflects “where we are and who we are, as a country, 40 years after our Independence?”.

+ info: https://geracao-80.com/independencia

trailer: https://vimeo.com/independenciafilme/trailer

 

 

A War Kept: photography of Portuguese soldiers in Angola, Guinea Bissau and Mozambique (1961-74)

13 January – 20 March 2022

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade, Lisbon

tuesday-sunday 10am-6pm

A War Kept explores personal collections of men who were once soldiers. The majority were collected through interviews conducted as part of ongoing ethnographic research being undertaken at the ICS-ULisboa. The rest were published on various websites and online archives. Coming from all over Portugal, they portray a distant place and time, and reveal a war as it was experienced but also imagined. Both banal and extraordinary, they reveal the many worlds of a long and anachronistic war that a dictatorship sent them to fight. We hope they will encourage and inspire a broader debate.

Maria José Lobo Antunes e Inês Ponte

Curators

A War Kept includes the possibility of listening to some of the stories behind soldiers’ photographs, using QR codes. Due to the covid pandemic, we suggest you bring your smartphone and headset along, so that you can safely enjoy these contents.

The exhibition A War Kept features parallel events that will run for two months: an abridged version of a theatre show, two cinema sessions that are part of a wider cinema cycle promoted by Museu do Aljube, talks and tours, all subject to the covid-19 safety rules.

email: aguerraguardada@gmail.com

CREDITS 

Curators: Maria José Lobo Antunes and Inês Ponte

Collections and Participants: Arquivo Aveiro e Cultura, Albano Costa Pereira, Antonino Pereira, António Barros, António Fernando Gonçalves, António Vilela, António Silvestre, Ângelo Teixeira, Boaventura Martins, Carlos Mendes, Casimiro Silva, Francisco Gomes, Fernando Penim Redondo, Fernando Silvestre, Fotosíntese/Buala, Gabriel Marques, Horácio Marcelino, João Freitas, João Gameiro, João Sousa, Joaquim Augusto Carvalho, Joaquim Cunha, Joaquim Silva, Joaquim Tomaz Soares, José Nunes Afonso, José Alves, José Cunha, José Freire, José Fernando Sousa, José Lopes, José Lourenço, José Pinto, José Rodrigues de Almeida, Luciano Leal, Luis Correa de Sá, Luis Mata, Manuel Carvalho, Manuel Rosa, Mário Martins, Mário Silva, Virgilio Santos

Invited Artists: Daniel Barroca, Patricia Barbosa, Rita Neves, Maria Gonzaga

Photographic Cameras: Fernando Penim Redondo

Exhibition Display  and Design: Ophelia Estúdio

Audio: Ana Coelho, Filipe Fernandes, Luis Ferraz, Miguel Ramos, Rosário Melo (Confederação), AP Silvestre, Inês Ponte

Video:  Inês Ponte

Translation: Lynn and Matthew Salt

Project Management: Eugénia Rodrigues, Pellegrino Cammino, Telma Vinhas

Exhibition developed through the postdoctoral project undertaken at ICS-ULisboa, “Image, War and Memory: colonial war photography in private collections and in institutional archives” (SFRH/BPD/116134/2016), with the support of 2020.01762.CEECIND.

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webpage dedicated to the exhibition The War Kept at the Museu do Aljube’s website

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