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Title Screenings from the archive: Nelisita (1982), an African vernacular-language fiction set in rural southern Angola and its illuminating cinematic chain
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64345
Date 2024
Author(s) Ponte, Ines
Abstract Nelisita (Carvalho, 1982, Nelisita: narrativas nianeka), a pioneering African vernacular language fiction film from the early phase of Angolan cinema, inspired me to conduct a series of interconnected exercises in visual anthropology. I produced an experimental archive-based remake (Ponte, 2016, 127 stills or 34 scenes from Nelisita) and screened it in both transnational urban contexts and an Angolan rural context reminiscent of the film's setting. This article discusses the multi-sited chain of production and recep tion of this short archival remake and various localized contemporary responses to it. The article examines an evolving concern with the materiality of the archive and how both foreign urban and familiar rural audiences received the film's narrative and change of genre. - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Subject(s) Angola; audiences; fiction and experimental film; film and anthropology; filmmaking; film screening
Language eng
Publisher American Anthropological Association
Relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/CEEC IND 3ed/2020.01762.CEECIND%2FCP1615%2FCT0005/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/OE/SFRH%2FBPD%2F115706%2F2016/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F50013%2F2020/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F50013%2F2020/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/LA%2FP%2F0051%2F2020/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/747508/EU
Type of publication article
Rights openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Identifier Ponte, I. (2024). Screenings From the Archive: Nelisita (1982), an African Vernacular- language Fiction Set in Rural Southern Angola and Its Illuminating Cinematic Chain. Visual Anthropology Review, 00(0): 1'11. [First published: 18 March 2024] https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12323; 1058-7187; 10.1111/var.12323; 1548-7458
Repository Lissabon - University of Lissabon
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