30 Anniversary, A Review in Films
Black girl
Senegal | OmeU

First Contact
Australia | original

Forest of bliss
USA | OmeU

Gbanga Tita
Belgium, France | OmU

İQué viva México!
USA, USSR | OmU

Photo Wallahs
Australia, England | OmeU

The day of a casual dock worker
Germany | original

The fish market and the fish
Germany | original

This film shows pictures of daily life in the Portuguese fishing village Sesimbra, south of Lisbon, during Salazar’s dictatorship in 1964. Mau’s photographs of fish displayed in geometric patterns and Fichte’s spoken text complement one another. The latter seems like notes of an interview with a typical young fisherman who goes out to sea at night, lives in a two-room apartment with his parents and siblings, perhaps has a fiancée he can’t afford to marry, and has to serve his military duty soon or has just returned from serving in Angola. Yes, some people are tortured. Yes, there are spies everywhere. These two remarks offset the otherwise harmless descriptions. The list of all the names of fish that enable the village to survive in collective poverty is long.
Three Times Piparsod: Life in an Indian Village
France, India | original
