WHEN FILMS INVITE TO TRAVEL... CINEMA AND/IS TRAVELLING

Abstract

This article suggests thinking about films in lusophone African countries that invite to travel, not necessarily in space, but in imagination which is at the same time an intrinsical characteristic of films as moving images. Alain Badiou’s idea that linking two ideas that might usually not be thought together is the starting point for philosophical reflection what we also find in film, as well as the idea of the “lines of flight” that we might link with the “vanishing line” of photography allow us to shed a different light on two examples, namely Flora Gomes’ The republic of the children (Guinea-Bissau, 2013) and Licínio Azevedo’s Island of the spirits (Mozambique, 2009).