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Margot

2022 · 72 min

A quiet, reflective archival journey that asks you to sit with old images and consider who was behind the camera.

Directed by
Catarina Alves Costa
Genres
Documentary
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Between 1958 and 1961, Margot Dias participated in four ethnographic missions to the northern end of Mozambique. She shot and taped hundreds of minutes—unique visual and sound recordings of Makonde culture. One seeks to portray the woman behind the records from those trips, from her youth in Germany in the 1920s, to meeting and marrying Portuguese ethnologist Jorge Dias, to the missions they made together to the then Portuguese colony. As she meets with Makonde people today and hands them back these images, the director seeks the gaze of the other director, whom she knew at the end of her life.

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Directed by
Catarina Alves Costa
Genres
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    • memory
    • colonialism
    • identity
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    • countryside
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    adult
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    • true story
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    Directed by
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    Cinematography
    João Ribeiro
    Runtime
    72 min

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