The annotated facsimile of the original Portuguese edition of Aimé Césaire's fundamental anticolonial text from 1950, banned during the Portuguese dictatorship (but clandestinely published by Filipa César's father in 1971).
By reactivating the 1971 Portuguese version of Aimé Césaire's text Discours sur le colonialisme through the reproduction of a facsimile of the original publication together with a copy of the censor's report and her own notes, Filipa César traces a complex course between past and present encapsulated in the clandestine existence and public absence of the publication in Portugal.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Filipa César – 1975” at Mudam Luxembourg in 2012.
Edition of 500.
Combining documentary and subjective viewpoints, the films of Filipa César (born 1975 in Porto, lives and works in Berlin) are concerned with the relationship between history, memory, image and narrative. Their freedom of tone and form is reminiscent of the form of the cinematic essay, in which the image serves as a starting point for open narratives, developed like a stream of thought. In her films the artist concentrates on points of historical crystallization, on facts situated on the margins of official history but liable to reveal its mechanisms, ideologies and hidden dimensions.
