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Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)

The spectre of a mythic titan looms as this film explores shared resistance against Portuguese colonialism between India and Africa.

Animation & Artists Moving Image 2024 35 mins Not rated

Overview

Glimpses and hallucinations of solidarity and possibility through generations. A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology that sought to destroy Vasco de Gama, preventing him from ever reaching India. Questions of what could have been emerge across ends to colonial occupations in India and Africa.

Screened as part of BFI London Film Festival 2024 Experimenta Shorts programme.