Sawyer Seminar Session Number One: Mueda, memória e massacre (Mueda, memory and massacre) (1978)

Mueda, memória e massacre (Mueda, memory and massacre) (1978)

Mozambique’s National Institute of Cinema

Billed as the first Mozambican full-length feature, this film operates on and through the ambivalences of documentary and fiction, history and memory. Filmmaker Ruy Guerra, born in Mozambique and raised in Brazil, returns to film a popular re-enactment of the Mueda massacre of 1960 in which nearly 600 Makonde villagers were murdered by the Portuguese. The massacre is connected to the beginning of the national liberation struggle in 1964.

Below, a conversation with educator and activist Prexy Nesbitt and Professor Marissa Moorman regarding the film and its contexts.

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