The coup on 25 April 1974 brought Portugal’s fascist dictatorship to an end. On 1 May that year, throngs of people flooded the streets of Lisbon to celebrate their newfound freedom—the beginning of the Carnation Revolution, captured in real time.

Italian film pioneer Luca Comerio spent the early decades of the 20th century travelling the globe as a cinematographer. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi unravel the imperialist and colonial ideology inscribed on—and between—every image.

In this essay film, artist Harun Farocki analyzes aerial photographs taken over Auschwitz alongside portraits of Algerian women, and takes a penetrating look at the complex relationship between image, perception, and history.

An absurd language mix-up leads to an Angolan man being mistaken by the Portuguese occupiers for a dangerous, armed freedom fighter. Incarcerated, his expressions of despair resemble a modern dance.

Militant films made between 1960 and 1980 presented the Palestinian struggle as a shining example to Japanese people opposed to US hegemony. An epilogue questions the boundary between sympathy, propaganda and identification.

An unusually composed account of women’s resistance in a male-dominated mining town in Patagonia. The women’s stories, including the founding of a feminist radio station, add color to the struggle of the “coal women.”

This film essay evolves as a collage of texts, symbols, and visual poetry among the rocks and valleys of the mountainous Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal—a landscape where history leaves its traces and is transformed into myth.