Margot

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Margot
NR 1 hr 12 minDocumentary
Between 1958 and 1961 Margot Dias participated in four ethnographic missions to the northern end of Mozambique She shot and taped hundreds of minutesunique visual and sound recordings of Makonde culture One seeks to portray the woman behind the records from those trips from her youth in Germany in the 1920s to meeting and marrying Portuguese ethnologist Jorge Dias to the missions they made together to the then Portuguese colony As she meets with Makonde people today and hands them back these images the director seeks the gaze of the other director whom she knew at the end of her life