The quantum leap taken by the audio-visual media not just as entertainment, but in public life, politics, education and science «alerts us to the historical role of cinema in the more general transformation of the ways knowledge is stored and disseminated, social experience is recorded andġ.
«esearch increasingly needs to attempt to com¬ prehend and theorize the "third spaces"2 of politico-economic, social and cultural transnationalisation and transculturation apparent in contemporary Mozam¬ bique✳.įrom the very beginning of cinematic production in Mozambique in the early 1960's to the gradual eclipse of national cinema in the 1990's (with the introduction of the austerity measures of Structural Adjustment4), cinema has been witness to (and participant in) some of the most important periods of recent Mozambican history, from conflicts and revolutions to ideological and demographic shifts and to the subtly changing patterns of everyday life5. The blood of our people was not shed only to liberate our land from its domination by foreigners but also to re¬ conquer a Mozambican personality, to create a new mentality, a new society✱. «We place training, education and culture primarily at the service of the large masses oppressed ana humiliated by the system of colonial and capitalist exploitation. Post-colonial cinema and the reconfiguration of Moçambicanidade
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