MESSAGE
MENSAGEM (MESSAGE) is an essay video work that deals with aspects of Brazilian reality. Welket Bungué situates himself as the self-represented subject in a symbolic action to speak about the case of Cláudia da Silva Ferreira. A resident of Morro de Congonhas, a favela in northern Rio, who was shot to death by police on March 16, 2014. This work is a criticizes the disinformation, perversity and alienation of the incoherence of media today. MENSAGEM (MESSAGE) is a provocative work that evokes the dehumanization and isolation experienced by peripheral communities and their residents in Rio de Janeiro.
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Welket BunguéDirectorBASTIEN (2016) AGINAL (2018) WOODGREEN (2017) MENSAGEM (2016) BUÔN (2015) E NADA FIZEMOS (2019) WHO THEY ARE (2019) N'SUMANDE TCHALIH HUDI (2019) EU NÃO SOU PILATUS (2019) ARRIAGA (2019)
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Welket BunguéWriterBASTIEN (2016) AGINAL (2018) WOODGREEN (2017) MENSAGEM (2016) BUÔN (2015) E NADA FIZEMOS (2019) WHO THEY ARE (2019) N'SUMANDE TCHALIH HUDI (2019) EU NÃO SOU PILATUS (2019) ARRIAGA (2019)
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Welket BunguéProducerEU NÃO SOU PILATUS (2019), ARRIAGA (2019), BASTIEN (2016) AGINAL (2018) WOODGREEN (2017) MENSAGEM ENGsubs (2016) BUÔN (2015) E NADA FIZEMOS (2019) WHO THEY ARE (2019) N'SUMANDE TCHALIH HUDI (2019) EU NÃO SOU PILATUS (2019) ARRIAGA (2019) Jah Intervention (2019)
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Welket BunguéKey CastEU NÃO SOU PILATUS (2019), ARRIAGA (2019), BASTIEN (2016) AGINAL (2018) WOODGREEN (2017) MENSAGEM ENGsubs (2016) BUÔN (2015) E NADA FIZEMOS (2019) WHO THEY ARE (2019) N'SUMANDE TCHALIH HUDI (2019) EU NÃO SOU PILATUS (2019) ARRIAGA (2019) Jah Intervention (2019)
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Bernard LessaCinematographer
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Project Title (Original Language):MENSAGEM
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
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Genres:Fiction, Experimental, Video-art, Journalistic Drama
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Runtime:7 minutes 44 seconds
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Completion Date:July 28, 2016
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Country of Origin:Brazil
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Country of Filming:Brazil
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Language:Portuguese
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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XIV Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporânea de CuritibaCuritiba
Brazil
November 24, 2019
International Premiere
Oficial Selection -
Endangered Bodies International Conference 2019Lisboa
Portugal
July 5, 2019
Portuguese Premiere -
14th CineBH International Film FestivalBelo Horizonte
Brazil
November 30, 2020
Brazilian Premiere
MOSTRA Welket Bungué -
18th Online Performance Art Festival
United States
December 20, 2020
Official Selection -
IV Mostra Ousmane SembèneSalvador
Brazil
March 21, 2021
“Cinema & Periférico” Master Class com Welket Bungué
Distribution Information
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Kussa ProductionsCountry: WorldwideRights: All Rights
Welket Bungué is a Berlin-based actor, born in Guinea-Bissau in 1988. His cross-cultural education from Africa, Europe, and Brazil made him into a cross-national, multi-talented 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). In 2023 Welket was an ambassador for the Face to Face with German Films Campaign as a filmmaker and actor.
Welket's artistry is influenced by anti-colonial and Afrocentric perspectives, leveraging one's natural skills to inspire human growth and potential. 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 belief of a future in which we can dialogue and find one another. Welket 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 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, Mudança, Jah Intervention, I am Not Pilatus, Arriaga, and Bastien.
As an actor, Welket has been featured in over 40 films and series, including Marcelo Caetano's highly acclaimed coming-of-age drama Body Electric, Marcelo Gomes' historical drama Joaquim, and Laís Bodanzky's Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Welket starred alongside actors Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart in David Cronenberg's film Crimes of the Future, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.
In 2020, Welket starred in Burhan Qurbani's new version of Berlin Alexanderplatz, where his performance earned him a "Silver Bear" nomination at the Berlin International Film Festival, a "Best Lead Actor" nomination at the LOLA Awards of the German Film Academy (equivalent to the OSCARS), and the Aluminum Horse Award for "Best Actor" at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
In 2022, he took part of the International Jury of Ghent IFF, chaired by the British director Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) amongst Daniel Hart (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight), Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze (What Do We See When We Look At The Sky), Nico Leunen (Ad Astra, Beautiful Boy, The Broken Circle Breakdown). He also took part of the International Jury of São Paulo IFF 2023, chaired by the Serbian director Emir Kusturica, amongst the Berlinale Artistic Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, Room, Normal People) and Enrica Fico Antonioni.
In June 2022, Welket released his first book 'Corpo Periférico' on the Amazon platform, it's 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".
In the year of the Olympic Games in Brazil, the grotesque case of Cacau (Cláudia da Silva Ferreira) remains a case for understanding. There was justice for Cacau, and that other women are these mothers who continue losing their sons and daughters when they are not themselves dying in their turn?
March 16th, 2014
Morro da Congonha
RJ