INTERMEDIAL INDIAN OCEAN - In Conversation with Nalini de Sousa & Pedro Pombo
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As part of the Indian Ocean events in November 2021, filmmaker Nalini Elvino De Sousa and anthropologist Pedro Pombo were guests of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in Bayreuth. In this interview, they talk with Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler, Deputy Spokesperson of the Cluster, and Clarissa Vierke, Professor of Literatures in African Languages at the University of Bayreuth, about their documentary film “The Club”.
"The Club" portrays the life of Goans in Tanzania and the cultural club that united them. The film team followed families recounting their memories of the club in Dar es Salaam, from the traditions that were maintained there to the music they listened to together.
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- INTERMEDIAL INDIAN OCEAN - In Conversation with Nalini de Sousa & Pedro Pombo
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- English
- Date
- February 13, 2023
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- [Music] good afternoon we are very happy that you came to byroid to show your documentary film the club on goens and zanzibar we would like to learn more about this but first of all it would be good if you could maybe introduce yourselves rapidly nalini would you like to start sure so i'm nadine suze i like to say that i come from guru i was actually born in lisbon i've been living in gold for the last 23 years and apart from being a portuguese teacher and my own ngo i do documentaries mainly for the portuguese television rtp but i also like to do my own documentaries i'm bill lupone i'm portuguese i'm an anthropologist i have a background in art history and architecture and um i did my field work for phd in mozambique and i've been living in india for the last six years more or less thank you probably for those who haven't seen the beautiful film club or the club could you give us a short idea a summary of what the film is about well this documentary is about the go and diaspora in tanzania and we see hundreds the stories that we gathered through the celebration of 100 years of the golden club in dire salem and the space of the club and history of the club ends being what connects to many different life stories that we are able to connect in zanzibar and our salem but we ended up centering the film on darussalam and all the personal narratives the story of the historical background of the golden diaspora to east africa mostly british east africa are made through the relevance that the club as the spice of community has been has been always being as a central space for a community feeling in east africa i mean listening to the summary that you just gave what is what is maybe the main what were your main questions that you wanted to answer with your film because there's about my it's about migrants it's about diaspora it's about the relation between india and east africa it's about life stories i mean there are a lot of things intermingled so maybe you could talk a… Read the full text about 4,492 words
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