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This is not the debut of Joacine Katar Moreira in the seventh art. But it is the first time she has done it since she is in São Bento. The non-registered deputy is one of the protagonists of the new short film by the Guinean filmmaker and director Welket Bungué, whose main intention is to “appeal to unity, celebrating the differences of others”. FOR THE PUBLIC, Joacine Katar Moreira praises the director’s work and highlights the “strong artistic side” of the project.
In 2013, the deputy had already participated in the film. Stew, by Inês Oliveira, but her participation in this format is unprecedented. He does it because culture is for him “an oxygen bomb”, he justifies. On his role in the film, in which he was invited to comment on interculturality and gender in contemporary Portuguese society, he synthesizes and challenges him to see: “That’s me”.
“I was already following Welket Bungué’s work with great enthusiasm, but this invitation was a complete surprise, especially considering the moment we are living in,” the deputy begins by explaining. “I accepted the invitation to participate in this project because I trust Welket’s work and was almost certain that it would be serious and worthy. And I was also attracted by the fact that it has a strong artistic side ”, continues Joacine Katar Moreira.
Although he considers that the work of a deputy is an essential worker (as the film portrays), he justifies that that was the look that the director brought and recalls that “Parliament did not close during the state of emergency.” In addition, parliamentary work, especially legislative work, “was essential for a rapid and effective response to the pandemic,” he stresses.
“In the movie, I can’t disconnect from who I am, even because that’s not what they asked me”, Describes Joacine Katar Moreira, who also brought the performance and performance aspects to the stage. In the end, the balance was positive: “I think it was worth the risk.”
Photograph kindly lent by Inês Subtil
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In response to PUBLIC, the director qualifies Joacine Katar Moreira’s participation as a “hybrid”, since he participates “as a citizen actively engaged in social policies aimed at the empowerment and humanization (in the democratic sense of the term) of ethnic minorities and communities. who are at a disadvantage or alienated by the current political-social system ”, but she also takes the role of actress, at a time when the short text is interpreted. “In this sense, Joacine is symbolically and conventionally displaced from what is the situation of political scrutiny that he has been forced to face,” explains Welket Bungué.
Change is one of the four short films that make up the “Essentials” program, a project that portrays how a group of essential workers maintained their work activity during the first phase of the covid-19 pandemic (a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus) . Joacine Katar Moreira is also finalizing a proposal to create essential worker status. “I think we owe it to the professionals who, in a pandemic environment, could not be confined and protected because they were fundamental to the fight against covid-19 and who need salary recognition and greater labor protection.”
The film, which lasts approximately 30 minutes, can be viewed on the Bairro Alto Theater website and is also available on the YouTube platform. Change It is based on two poems written by the director’s father and mixes spoken and choreographed performance. The poems, published in the book Cabaró, Djito To have!, were the inspiration of the work, which “addresses opinions about the power structures in post-colonial Europe, exposes the fragility and vulgarization of certain essential positions in the labor market and that are mostly occupied by women”, the director tells PUBLIC Welket Bungué. The project also addresses racism and institutional dishonesty “in the face of the management of natural and human resources,” he adds.
“You can expect poetry, an intertextual richness linked to the timeless discourse of Paulo Tambá Bungué’s texts [pai do realizador], articulated with the imposing oratory of Joacine as a politically committed citizen ”, he anticipates.
