Filipa César

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Porto, Portugal

Filipa César

Biography

Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker interested in the porous boundaries between the moving image and its reception, the fictional dimensions of the documentary and the economies, politics and poetics inherent to cinema praxis. Since 2011, César has been researching the origins of cinema in Guinea-Bissau, developing that research into the collective project Luta ca caba inda (The struggle is not over yet). She was a participant of the research projects Living Archive and Visionary Archive, both organised by the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin. Her last film MANGROVE SCHOOL (2022), co-directed with Sónia Vaz Borges, was s...

Acting

2018

Production

2022

Mangrove School

as Director

2024

Resonance Spiral

as Director

2007

Rapport

as Director

2012

Cacheu

as Director

2010

Porto, 1975

as Director

2012

Conakry

as Director

2017

Spell Reel

as Director

2018

Sunstone

as Director

2017

Spell Reel

as Editor

2011

The Embassy

as Director

2010

Insert

as Director

2014

Regulado

as Director

2018

Sunstone

as Co-Writer

2020

Quantum Creole

as Director

2020

2020

Quantum Creole

as Director of Photography

2010

Insert

as Producer

2014

Mined Soil

as Director

2012

Cuba

as Director

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