MiniDV transferred to digital HD file, 4:3, 4minutes and 30 seconds, silent
Manipulated footage of a landscape from my native island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde runs in parallel with phrases drawn from Portuguese pop songs and statements by Angolan civil-war leaders. The text interweaves lyrics from the 1980s and 1990s with excerpts from speeches made by the presidents of MPLA and UNITA, the two opposing factions during the Angolan civil war (1975–2002, with interludes). Growing up in Lisbon, I inhabited a realm where pop culture and civil war coexisted: while Portugal embraced Western culture, its most populous former African colonies descended into prolonged internal conflicts.
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