Ecos da memória colonial na filmografia de Margarida Cardoso e Miguel Gomes

In more recent times we are starting to come across more frequent artistic perspectives that echo the Portuguese colonial history from a metaphorical representation. Accordingly, one can affirm that a revisiting of a factual episode, within an artistic context, infers the reinterpretation of the given event; in doing so, it alters the meaning of reality. Through cinema “story” becomes “History”, as a film is in itself a document. The scripts have thus mutual aspects: The need to understand the colonial history in Africa; the questioning of the concept of “Empire”; the role of the revolutionary hero; the unbearable grief of those who stayed behind and those who have returned. Having in mind these assumptions we will analyze the representations of the colonial memory in the following films: A Costa dos Murmúrios (Margarida Cardoso, 2004); Tabu (Miguel Gomes: 2012); Yvone Kane (Margarida Cardoso: 2014).