Filipa César

Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator and community organizer. Since 2011, César has been collectively researching the militant cinema practice of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea Bissau, through the production of workshops, archives, films, performances, publications and community gatherings. With cine-kins and allies, she co-founded the Abotcha - Mediateca Onshore in Malafo (Guinea Bissau), the collective archive project luta ca caba inda, co-organized the anti-racist training camp O Que Fazer Junto and the Anti-colonial Records workshop and publication. César co-curated the film seminar Docs Kingdom in 2017 and was a participant in the research projects Living Archive (2011-2013), Visionary Archive (2013-2015) initiated by the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art and is part of the working group Cinema as Assembly.

Since 2023, César shares with Diana McCarty the Professorship for Time-based Media and Performance at HfG-Karlsruhe and is a foundation member of the feminist art association elsehere. César premiered her first feature-length essay film Spell Reel at the Forum section of the Berlinale in 2017 and the collaboration film Mangrove School co-directed with Sónia Vaz Borges. César premiered Resonance Spiral, her second feature-length experimental documentary, co-assembled with Marinho de Pina at Berlinale in 2024. Resonance Spiral was awarded the Library Award at 46h Cinema du Réel, 2024. Selected Film Festivals include Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Curtas Vila do Conde; Forum Expanded - Berlinale; IFFR, Rotterdam; DocLisboa, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, Selected exhibitions and screenings include: 8th Istanbul Biennial; Serralves Museum; Tate Modern; SFMOMA; São Paulo Biennial; Manifesta 8; Jeu de Paume; Kunstwerke, Berlin; NBK; SAVVY Contemporary; Khiasma; Tensta konsthall; Mumok, Vienna; Contour 8 Biennial; Gasworks; Flaherty Seminar; MoMA; Harvard Art Museums; BIM; Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Tabakalera; GfZK; Centre Georges Pompidou; Archival Assembly Festival.