Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword (Lúcia Nagib) -- Colonial Reflections, Post-Colonial Refractions: Film and the Moving Image in the Portuguese (Post- )Colonial Situation (Maria do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro) -- Part I The Birth [through Images] of African Nations -- 1"Ruy Duarte: A Cinema of the Word Aspiring to Imagine Angolanness (Maria do Carmo Piçarra) -- 2"Between the Visible and the Invisible: Mueda, Memória e Massacre by Ruy Guerra and the Cultural Forms of the Makonde Plateau (Raquel Schefer) -- 3"Clear Lines on an Internationalist Map: Foreign Filmmakers in Angola at Independence (Ros Gray) -- 4"The Many Returns to Wiriyamu: Audiovisual Testimony and the Negotiation of Colonial Violence (Robert Stock) -- Part II The Fall of the Portuguese Empire: Foreign Gazes during the Cold War -- 5 'Rarely penetrated by camera or film': NBC's Angola:Journey to a War (1961) (Afonso Ramos) -- 6"The US and Portuguese Colonialism as Imagined through Television Drama (Rui Lopes) -- 7"African Independence and the Socialist Republic of Romania's Photographic Archive (Iolanda Vasile) -- Part III Moving Images, Post-Colonial Representations and the Archive -- 8"Colonial Collection of the Portuguese Film Archive: Shot, Reverse Shot, Off-Screen (José Manuel Costa) -- 9"A Decolonizing Impulse: Artists in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Archive, Or the Boxes of Departing Settlers between Maputo, Luanda and Lisbon (Ana Balona de Oliveira) -- 10"In-Between Memory and History: Artists' Films and the Portuguese Colonial Archive (Teresa Castro) -- Part IV Rethinking (Post- )Colonial Narratives: Artistic Takes -- 11 Drawing and Undrawing my Genealogy (Daniel Barroca) -- 12"A Grin without Marker (Filipa César) -- 13"Hotel Globo (Mónica de Miranda) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index