The Recce

Name: The Recce
Start: 2026-05-28UTC19:00
Location: CINETECA. Sala Plató

Daniel Mann

Germany, United Kingdom

2026

Spanish Premiere

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Synopsis

Through emails, location photos and archive material, The Recce features the gestation of a film that will never come to fruition. In the short film, a director is scouting locations in Uganda to recreate an early 20th-century colonial expedition, but in the process of conceptualising his work, he comes close to repeating the very logics he set out to expose. The film thus challenges the supposed neutrality of the cinematic medium: cinema is revealed as a practice that can intervene in and impose relations of power on the territories it portrays. (IC)

Festivals

2026 - Berlinale -
2026 - Visions de Reel -

Director biography

Daniel Mann

Daniel Mann is a London-based filmmaker, researcher and writer. He is known for directing short and feature-length documentaries, several of which have explored ecological phenomena in relation to human history. His work has been screened in many art centres and international film festivals such as the Berlinale (Forum), IFFR, IDFA and Cinéma du Réel. Mann is currently a fellow at the Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. He holds a PhD from the Department of Media and the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College.

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