Screening of Behind the Lines

Date and Schedule: 2nd December 2016 | 6pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística

Projecção de Behind the lines (Margaret Dickinson, 1971, 50’)

Documentary on the struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique, focusing on the organization of civilian life in the liberated areas. Filmed in 1970 in Niassa, it was supported by the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO.

Presentation of the screening by Ros Gray (Goldsmith University of London).

Debate with the director Margaret Dickinson and the researchers Ros Gray e Maria do Carmo Piçarra (CEC-FLUL / CECS –U. Minho).

Organization: COMPARING EMPIRES: COMPARED COLONIAL ICONOGRAPHIES – CITCOM group.

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Margaret Dickinson is an independent filmmaker and author of books about cinema, including Rogue Reels: Oppositional Film in Britain, 1945-1990 (1999). At the end of the 1960s, Dickinson worked for FRELIMO (Front for the liberation of Mozambique); in 1971 she made the documentary Behind the Lines about the armed fight for independence in Mozambique and in 1978, she taught film editors at the National Institute of Cinema of Mozambique (INC). Recently, she has been involved in teaching media studies in India.

Ros Gray is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Critical Studies in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. Her research explores the trajectories of militant filmmaking, particularly in relation to liberation struggles and revolutionary movements in Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso, and more recently with the intersections between artistic practices and decolonial environmentalism.