AGINAL

We cannot photograph to forget. Kris Linn loves to photograph the nature, but this delight has its days counted because the day passes is forgetting of the places where it passed. From Morro Dois Irmãos in Vidigal to Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Kris looks for the perfect place for the perfect photo that unites the immaculate nature and the presence of his friend Mayo.

  • Welket Bungué
    Director
    BASTIEN, BUÔN, MESSAGE
  • Welket Bungué
    Writer
    BASTIEN, BUÔN, MESSAGE
  • Welket Bungué
    Producer
    Buôn, Message
  • Welsau Bungué
    Producer
  • Welket Bungué
    Key Cast
    "Welket Mayo"
    BASTIEN, Buôn, Message, Joaquim, Body Electric
  • Kristin Bethge
    Key Cast
    "Kris Linn"
  • Welket Bungué
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    AGINAL
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil, Germany
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Cellphone, Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Shortcutz Lisboa
    Lisboa
    Portugal
    Portuguese
  • I Mostra de Cinema Português
    Lisboa
    Portugal
    September 28, 2019
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • KUSSA Productions
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Welket Bungué

Welket Bungué born in Guinea-Bissau in 1988. He descends from the Balanta ethnicity, and he's based in Berlin since 2019. Bungué is a transdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance and video. His cross-cultural education, from Africa, Europe, and Brazil, made himself a cross-national multitalented artist.

He is co-founder of the production company KUSSA, holds a degree in Theater Acting (ESTC / Lisbon) and a postgraduate degree in Performance Art (UniRio / Brazil). Bungué is an artist featured by the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), and since 2021 his films are part of the institution’s collection.

Welket's artwork is grounded in anti-colonial and Afro-diasporic practices to generate self-empowerment and healing capacities. His films compose an ecosystem of creative freedom, an invitation to cast off from old hardened narratives and into a space of thinking, resilience, and cross- border identity. Like a body in transit, his commitment to the storytelling art holds the belif of a future in which we can dialogue and find one another.

Bungué's films have circulated internationally through numerous film festivals such as Berlinale, ABFF (USA), Africlap (France), Zanzibar IFF, Afrikamera (Berlin), BFI London and Sheffield DocFest (UK), IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Curta Cinema IFF (RJ, Brazil), as well as the Stockholm Dansfilmfestival. Welket repertoire on filmmaking reunites more than 25 creations, including the short film titles ‘Calling Cabral’ (2022), ‘Mudança’ (2020), ‘Intervenção Jah’ (2019), ‘I am Not Pilatus' (2019), ‘Arriaga' (2019) and ‘Bastien' (2016).

In June 2022 Welket released his first book ‘Corpo Periférico’ on the Amazon platform, it is an autobiographical essay on auteur filmmaking based on the eponymous concept of “self-portraying cinema”.

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Welket Bungué nasceu em 1988 na Guiné-Bissau. O guineense-português de etnia balanta, reside em Berlim desde 2019. Bungué é um artista transdisciplinar com foco nas artes cénicas e no vídeo performanace. A sua educação intercultural agregando as suas heranças africanas, a as vivências europeias, e as influências adquiridas no Brasil, fazem dele um cidadão-artista em trânsito permanentemente.

Welket é co-fundador da produtora KUSSA, faz locução para entidades internacionais, desenvolve Escrita Dramática, Argumento de Cinema, Performances e Teatro. É licenciado em Teatro no ramo de Atores (ESTC/Lisboa) e pós-graduado em Performance (UniRio/RJ).

Bungué é cooperador-membro da Fundação GDA, é Membro Permanente da Academia Portuguesa de Cinema desde 2015, membro da Deutsche Filmakademie desde 2020, e em 2021 tornou-se membro da Academia Europeia de Cinema. Bungué é artista integrante do Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlim), e desde 2021 que os seus filmes fazem parte do acervo da instituição.

O seu trabalho artístico investiga práticas anti-colonialistas e de afirmação africana-diaspórica, visando a criação de capacidades de auto-empoderamento e cura. A filmografia de Bungué pressupõe um ecossistema de liberdade criativa, um convite a abandonar narrativas endurecidas e a lançar-se em novas possibilidades de pensamento, resiliência, e simultaneidade identitária.

Os seus filmes têm circulado internacionalmente por inúmeros festivais de cinema tais como Berlinale, ABFF (EUA), Africlap (França), Zanzibar IFF, Afrikamera (Berlim), BFI Londres e Sheffield DocFest (Reino Unido), IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Curta Cinema IFF (RJ, Brasil), bem como o Dansfilmfestival de Estocolmo. O repertório cinematográfico de Welket reúne mais de 25 criações, incluindo as curtas-metragens 'Memória' (2022), 'Mudança' (2020), 'Intervenção Jah' (2019), 'Eu Não Sou Pilatus (2019), 'Arriaga' (2019) e 'Bastien' (2016).

Em 2019 foi distinguido com o prémio “Angela Award - On The Move” no Subtitle Festival em Kilkenny, na Irlanda. Em 2020 Welket é o protagonista de 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (Comp. Intl. Berlinale 2020), realizado por Burhan Qurbani. A sua interpretação valeu-lhe uma indicação ao Urso de Prata, uma nomeação como “Melhor Ator Principal” nos prémios LOLA da Academia Alemã de Cinema (Deutscher Filmpreis), e ainda o prémio “Cavalo de Alumínio” para “Melhor Ator” no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Estocolmo.

Em junho de 2022 Welket lançou o seu primeiro livro 'Corpo Periférico' na plataforma Amazon, trata-se de um ensaio autobiográfico sobre a produção de cinema de autor com base no conceito homónimo de "cinema de autorrepresentação".

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Director Statement

'AGINAL' is my second mobile movie. Before, between 2015 and 2016 I travelled through England and Brazil, and decided to gather the images of this trip and make a short film that I called 'WOODGREEN'. 'WOODGREEN' was recently at the African Smartphone Film Festival (Nigeria), debuted in Portugal at Samartfest.Co and is still competing at the Super 9 Mobile Film Festival. 'AGINAL' is a film thought cinematically despite being filmed with a mobile device. The creative concept is metamorphosed into the idea that nowadays we are increasingly vulnerable to the ephemerality of affective relationships in the personal forum, which also extends to human relations in general, but especially to those that occur in social networks. Although we were in the Age of Image, photography was devalued due to the photographic act's vulgarization and also because the process of photographic creation became more accessible and immediate and the criteria were diluted. It is to awaken this loss of genuineness and to highlight the beauty of the communion between Being and Nature, physically, that I decided to edit this film considering the video images and the photos that Kristin Bethge (photographer and actress in the film) was capturing throughout our stay in Rio de Janeiro and then in Berlin between January and September 2017.