Seminários de Investigação CITCOM - Problemáticas das Sociedades Contemporâneas


This presentation draws on the research project “Institutional documentary and amateur cinema in the colonial era: analysis and uses” (PID2021-123567NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation/State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund. In partnership with Filmoteca Española, the project identifies, documents and analyzes the hundreds of productions shot in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea in order to map a fundamental part of Spanish audiovisual history that has been usually neglected and ask about the legacy of colonial history in the present. This talk will tackle the provisional results of the project and will address the methodological, theoretical, ethical and organizational challenges of such an ambitious enterprise. Miguel Fernández Labayen is associate professor in the department of Communication and Media Studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is a member of the research group Tecmerin and the Institute of Spanish Cinema.