Djambo

Film
2017


DJAMBO, documentary film. Mozambique/Portugal 2017
Awarded project by CPLP-DOCTV 2015-16.
Co-dir: Chico Carneiro/Catarina Simão

The title comes from the main character, Carlos Djambo whose memories as a guerrilla fighter, photographer and militant provide the common thread linking the stops on a road trip to the former Liberated Zones in Northern Mozambique.

Carlos Djambo has lived just as radical a life as the global left’s revolutionary heroes. Today he is one of the few Mozambicans who can recreate the photographic imagery related to events of the Liberation Struggle in their nation. As a guerrilla-photographer, he took a number of radical decisions that served to fuse his beliefs in life, sacrifice and commitment to a greater cause. He survived a number of wars as well as the plane crash that killed Samora Machel in Mbuzini.

Djambo accompanied foreign activists and directors who supported the anti-colonial movements in Africa. He learned photography while in exile. He was a pioneer in video, and worked with the famous director Jean-Luc Godard. He played a role in recording a large number of the official meetings that made Mozambican history.

But, these facts of Djambo’s extraordinary life are only the starting-point for our film: an extraordinary road-movie which will take us to the former Liberated Areas. With Djambo as the guide – and his photographs providing the map – our camera will recreate the story of his life and of his memories, reactivated by roads, landscapes, dislocations, actions, and encounters with former freedom fighters.

Release on March 2017,on public tv’s in all CPLP countries (Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Principe, Guiné-equatorial and East Timor)

  • 2024

    Paths of the Mozambican Images/ Workshop [Percursos das imagens de Moçambique]

    Maputo, Mozambique

    Workshop
  • 2024

    Ecologies of Movement: Retracing & Rethinking Empire & Resistance

    Madrid, Spain

    Conference
  • 2024

    Manif d’art 11 – La biennale de Québec

    Québec city, Canadá

    Collective exhibition
  • 2023

    International Anti-Racist Festival – MICAR

    Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, Portugal

    Screening and debate
  • 2020-2023

    De-Zentralbild project – Migrants in the GDR

    Berlin, Germany

    online-base research
  • 2023

    ASSEMBLEIA ORDINÁRIA #3 – Editoria

    Porto, Portugal

    Talk
  • 2023

    Archival Assembly #2

    Berlin, Germany

    Festival
  • 2023

    ARCHIVING EXHIBITING. GOING OFF-SCRIPT IN ART ARCHIVES – Sala Colonial project

    Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain

    International Symposium on Art Archives
  • 2022

    Empire and anti-colonialism and contemporary history – Sala Colonial project

    Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon, Portugal

    Anual Doctoral workshop - Presentation and debate
  • 2022

    Afriques en vision Cinemas des femmes africaines – FRAC/Institut des Afriques

    FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France

    Screening and Masterclass
  • 2022

    XXIII Doctoral School, “Fábrica de Ideias”

    Centre for African Studies (CEA-UEM), Mozambique

    Workshop
  • 2022

    Biographies and Liberation: Life Writing in Transversal Perspectives

    ARPAC, Maputo, Mozambique

    Conference /screening
  • 2022

    Union of Struggles, otherwise – 17th Istanbul Biennial

    Istanbul, Turkey

    Collective exhibition
  • 2022

    Les Péninsules démarrées – Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA

    Bordeaux, France

    Collective exhibition
  • 2022

    PING! Session for Teachers

    Café Rivoli, Porto, Portugal

    Public talk
  • 2022

    ZfK 2/2021 The Post/Colonial Museum (ADAPTER)

    Germany

    Article in book
  • 2022

    Screening of Mueda, Memoria e Massacre at Barbican Center

    London, UK

    Screening + Introduction
  • 2022

    Colonial room. The movie (Sala colonial. O filme) at Escola Secundária de Latino Coelho

    Lamego, Portugal

    Premiere screening
  • 2022

    GIFmeback# Memória de Elefante – ping! Galeria Municipal do Porto

    Porto, Portugal

    Workshop
  • 2022

    SOS – STOLEN OBJECTS STORIES by BABEL-nonprofit, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies 澳門旅遊學院 e USJ – University of Saint Joseph

    Macao, China

    Online conference
  • 2021

    CONCRETA 18 – Dialogue as restitution and reparation. Beyond objects.

    Online, Spain

    Magazine launch
  • 2021

    LA COLECCIÓN. Vasos Comunicantes 1881-2021/ Communicating Vessels. Collection 1881-2021

    Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

    Collection exhibit
  • 2021

    Trauma response

    Duplex Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal

    Collective show
  • 2021

    Restitution and reparation in post-conflict identity

    CCFM and CCMA, Maputo, Mozambique

    Online Debates + exhibition
  • 2021

    Sala colonial – Colonial room

    Museu de Lamego, Portugal

    Research project/exhibition
  • 2021

    Archival Assembly in Berlin

    Several venues, Berlin, Germany

    Festival
  • 2021

    The Silence of the Earth – O Silêncio Da Terra

    Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal

    Collective exhibition
  • 2021

    Direito à informação | Right to information, Galerias Municipais | EGEAC, 2021 (upcoming)

    Lisbon, Portugal

    Book launch
  • 2021

    Latitude on Air – episode on Decolonizing Film Archives

    Radio Netzwerk Berlin
    on 88,4 mhz Berlin and 90,7 mhz Potsdam.

    Radio show
  • 2021

    Associação de Amigos da Praça do Anjo invites Catarina Simão.

    Cooperativa dos Pedreiros. Porto

    Screening + Talk
  • 2020

    Living Archive Cairo / Virtual MRI Residencies

    Cimatheque-Alternative Film Centre - Cairo, Egypt.

    Mentorship
  • 2020

    Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival 7th Edition

    Cinema São Jorge + ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon) | FILMIN Portugal (online)

    Jury
  • 2020

    Mueda Memória e Massacre in Il Cinema Ritrovato

    IL CINEMA RITROVATO, Bologna

    Screening + introduction
  • 2020

    Reopening of R-HUMOR exhibition

    Galeria da Avenida das Índias, Lisbon

    Reopening of exhibition
  • 2020

    Reworking images as counterpart of today’s landscape – Interview part #1

    FOTOTA

    online publishing
  • 2020

    Effects of Wording at Ideias no Escuro

    ideiasnoescuro.com

    online screening
  • 2020

    Mueda 79 at Ideias no Escuro

    ideiasnoescuro.com

    online screening
  • 2020

    Berlinale Forum/ Forum Expanded

    Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin

    Talk
  • 2020

    Conversations R-Humor

    Galeria Avenida da Índia, Lisbon

    Public Program
  • 2020

    R-Humor

    Galeria da Avenida da Índia, Lisbon

    Exhibition
  • 2019

    A Meeting With the Mozambique Film Archive

    Ar.Co, Lisbon

    Artist Talk
  • 2019

    Memory, Diversity and Identities: Challenges for Intercultural Relations in the 21st Century

    Beira Interior University, Covilhã, Portugal

    International Seminar
  • 2019

    Documentation and Art Practice

    Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Art Library

    Conference
  • 2019

    Sonhámos um país – Camilo de Sousa and Isabel Noronha

    Culturgest, DocLisboa

    Film Presentation
  • 2019

    Everything passes except the past

    Goethe Institute Portugal / Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

    Workshop
  • 2019

    Mutantes #3: encontro com Catarina Simão

    Salamanca Fine Arts School

    Seminar / Artist Talk
  • 2019

    Paixão Escancarada – Vavy Pacheco Borges

    Cinemateca Portuguesa

    Book Presentation
  • 2019

    Reframing the Archive

    Arquivo Fotográfico do Porto

    Conference
  • 2019

    Archive-Making: Talk with Catarina Simão

    Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

    Artist Talk
  • 2019

    Critical Entanglements: Colonialism, Anthropology and the Visual Arts + Ethnographically Intimate

    Room 215, Museum of Anthropology - University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Exhibition and workshop
  • 2019

    Cinema, Leituras e Contextos – Cinema, readings and contexts

    Social Sciences Institute - Lisbon University

    Seminar
  • 2019

    La lutte de libération du point de vue des images. Les images du point de vue de la lutte de libération. Notes sur les films Djambo (2016) et Effects of Wording (2014)

    Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris

    Artist Talk
  • 2019

    Descolonizar os museus: isto na prática?

    Social Sciences Institute - Lisbon University

    Conference
  • 2019

    Critical images: (Dis)comfort of Images and Injuries of History

    Filmhuset, Stockholm

    Talk
  • 2019

    Respect and Recognition (Respekt und Anerkennung Internationale Tagung)

    Magdeburg, Germany

    Conference/ Screening program
  • 2018

    Mueda in excess: the massacre of Mueda in history and in cinema

    CEA (Mondlane University), Maputo, Mozambique

    Seminar
  • 2018

    Exodus Stations #4

    Quai Branly, Paris

    Art Residency Presentation / Artist Talk
  • 2018

    Exodus Stations #4

    Paris

    Publication
  • 2018

    Effects of Wording at Archive Kabinett

    Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany

    Screening / Talk
  • 2018

    Djambo (2016)

    Nampula

    Screening
  • 2018

    Exodus Station #4

    Museum fur Völkerkunde, Leipzig

    Publication
  • 2018

    Specters of Freedom

    Arsenal Cinema - Cinema and Video Art Institute, Berlin

    DVD Launch
  • 2018

    Exodus Station #4 – La Volonté des Archives

    Collège d'études Mondiales, FMSH

    Art Residency Presentation / Artist Talk
  • 2018

    Effects of Wording

    MASP - São Paulo Art Museum

    Collective Exhibition
  • 2018

    Djambo (2016)

    Espaço Campanhã, Porto

    Screening / Conference
  • 2018

    Exodus Station #4

    Quai-Branly Museum

    Art Residency
  • 2018

    Exodus Stations #4

    Grassi Museum

    Art Residency
  • 2017

    Cinema, fotografia e vídeo nos arquivos de Mozambique: reapropriação como alternativa à preservação de imagens em perigo de desaparecer

    Beira Interior University, Covilhã

    Seminar
  • 2017

    Effects of Wording

    Hangar, Lisbon

    Screening / Talk
  • 2017

    A memória involuntária dos arquivos: o caso do Mozambique Institute Project

    National Ethnology Museum, Lisbon

    Seminar
  • 2017

    Untimely Colaboration

    Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

    Seminar
  • 2017

    Effects of Wording

    Cinemateca Portuguesa

    Screening
  • 2017

    Effect and Wording

    CEA, Maputo, Mozambique

    Screening / Talk
  • 2017

    Djambo (2016)

    Centro Cultural Português, Maputo

    Screening / Debate
  • 2017

    Djambo (2016)

    Social Sciences Institute - Lisbon University

    Screening / Talk
  • 2017

    Mueda 79

    Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

    Collective Exhibition / Installation
  • 2017

    Five minutes with Ruy Guerra

    Glasgow, Scotland

    Video / Exhibition
  • 2017

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre – Ruy Guerra

    Africa in Motion Film Festival,

    Conference / Film Presentation + Debate
  • 2016

    Ntimbe Caetano

    Installation
  • 2014

    The Mozambique 
Institute Project

    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid

    Exhibition
  • 2015

    17 Introductions for the Mozambique Institute

    Book
  • 2015

    Uhuru

    Bratislava

    Exhibition
  • 2015

    Effects of Wording

    National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Installation / Collective Exhibition
  • 2015

    Assambleias (Assamblies)

    RE.AL "O Que Um Livro Pode", Lisbon

    Performance
  • 2015

    20 Frames for Politics of Friendship

    Lisbon

    Online Magazine
  • 2015

    Uhuru

    Book
  • 2015

    On Pedagogy

    Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden

    Screening
  • 2014

    The Mozambique Institute Project

    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Madrid

    Installation / Collective Exhibition
  • 2014

    Mueda 1979 / Mozambique Archive Series (2013)

    Alhóndiga, Bilbao

    Installation / Collective Exhibition
  • 2014

    Politics of Friendship

    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

    Performance
  • 2014

    Effects of Wording

    Lisbon

    Film
  • 2013

    MUEDA 1979

    Film
  • 2013

    Staging decolonization: a cinema in denial of his own present

    Alhóndiga, Bilbao

    Conference
  • 2013

    These are the weapons (2012)

    Núcleo D'Are, Maputo, Mozambique

    Installation
  • 2012

    Specters of Freedom

    Berlin

    Film
  • 2012

    A Forma Que Imita O Seu Assunto

    Lisbon

    Radio
  • 2012

    These Are The Weapons

    Video-installation
  • 2012

    Off Screen Project

    Andaluz Contemporary Art Centre, Seville, Spain

    Exhibition / Screen Program
  • 2012

    These are the weapons

    Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany

    Installation
  • 2011

    Ghost – Book

    RE.AL, Lisbon

    Book
  • 2011

    Ghost

    Lisbon

    Artistic Residency
  • 2011

    Off Screen Project

    London, UK

    Exhibition / Talk / Conference
  • 2011

    Off Screen Project

    Africa Cont./ Carpe Diem, Lisbon

    Collective Exhibition
  • 2010

    Off Screen Project

    Casa das Artes, Vila Nova de Famalicão

    Collective Exhibition
  • 2010

    Off Screen Project

    Manifesta 8 - European Bienal of Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain

    Collective Exhibition
  • 2009

    Restos, rastos e traços

    Atelier Real

    Art Residency / Exhibition / Talk
  • 2009 - Now

    Off screen project – The Mozambique Film Archive

    Exhibition