Found Futures I: Sound Archives

Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger
Moderation: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Both the INCA – Instituto Nacional do Cinema e Audiovisual in Guinea-Bissau and the National Film, Video and Sound Archive in Nigeria, contain documentary footage as well as sound elements. In addition to the Mediateca Onshore, Guinea-Bissau has now also established the sonoteca. Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, Didi Cheeka, and Vinzenz Hediger will present audio examples and discuss the role of sound in cinematic heritage.

Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and community organizer. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Lisbon. In 2008, she completed an MA in Art in Context at the University of the Arts Berlin. Since 2011, she has been researching the origins of the cinema of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea-Bissau as a laboratory for decolonizing epistemologies. She premiered her first feature-length films SPELL REEL at the Berlinale Forum in 2017 and RESONANCE SPIRAL in 2024, while Quantum Creole was exhibited at Forum Expanded in 2020. She lives and works in Berlin.

Marinho de Pina is a filmmaker, transdisciplinary artist, performer, poet, musician, and writer. He is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory in Lisbon doing his PhD on Sacred Spaces in Bissau. Since 2017, he has been working on Mediateca Abotcha in Guinea-Bissau with Filipa Cesár, Sana na N’Hada, and Suleimane Biai, a program for the cultural creation of dreams and utopias with the local community.

Didi Cheeka is a Nigerian filmmaker and film critic. He is the editor of Lagos Film Review and co-founder and curator of Lagos Film Society, an alternative cinema center dedicated to the founding of Nigeria’s first arthouse cinema. He also serves as the artistic director of Decasia Festival, which he founded in collaboration with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art. Cheeka is currently engaged in digitizing Nigeria’s rediscovered national audiovisual archives. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and primarily lives and works in Lagos.