Teresa Castro
Associate Professor in Film Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the musée du quai Branly, Paris (2010-2011) and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2011). Part of her research has focused on photography and film in colonial situations and she collaborated in the curating of the film cycle ‘Liberation Movements in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau (1961-1974)’, organized by the festival Doclisboa in 2011. Her publications on these topics include articles and book chapters on Portuguese colonial photography, scientific and ethnographic films made in Angola or the way in which Portuguese contemporary artists have explored colonial archival images.
