Happened at LISA

Film screening: São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana
by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

Synopsis: What do African artists who have arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? The documentary presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openness, contradictions, and tensions.

The event is part of the activities of the project Presença e Memória Negra na FFLCH: para além de novembro (Black Presence and Memory at FFLCH: beyond November). Check out the schedule:

November 17
Photographic Exhibition: Retratos da Gente – Black Professionals at FFLCH
History and Geography Hall – FFLCH
Avenida Professor Lineu Prestes, 338 – University City

November 18 — 2 p.m.
Film screening: São Palco Cidade Afropolitana, by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
CINUSP
Rua do Anfiteatro, 109 – Butantã

November 18 — 5 p.m.
Poetry with Resistance: Sarau and other poetic forms
Philosophy and Social Sciences Building
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315 – Butantã

The Consulate of France in São Paulo and the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS/USP) invite you to the series entitled "What if the West were not the only one to philosophize?", with Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos (Université Paris-Est Créteil).

Conference "Philosophies africaines: ethnophilosophie, géophilosophie, philosophie comparée: la question de la pensée en Afrique” 

Debater: Tiganá Santana (IEB-USP)
There will be simultaneous translation

Date: November 11, 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 5 PM
Location: CNRS House - Rua da Reitoria, 100; University City

Seminar “Bruno Latour et le problème de la connaissance (L'Anthropologie des modernes)”

Debater: Stelio Marras (IEB-USP)
There will be a live stream on LISA's YouTube channel.

Date: November 14, 2025, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: LISA-USP Auditorium / Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 – Colméias (Favo 10), University City

Organized by: Mauro W. B. Almeida and Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
Supported by: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP)

The 12th National Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Ethnomusicology (ENABET) will screen films from LISA-USP between November 7th and 13th, 2025.

Woya Hayi Mawe - Para onde vais? (2018)

Date/Time: November 7, 2025 | 10:30 AM
Location: Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) – Santo Amaro (BA)

Synopsis: Following Lenna Bahule, a Mozambican artist, we see how she faces the challenges of being a musician, a woman, and Black in both Brazil and Mozambique. The São Paulo art world demands her African identity, her roots. Meanwhile, in Mozambique, Lenna is now known for her success in Brazil. Back in her homeland, she rediscovers it with new eyes. Lenna encounters an inspiring generation of musicians in Maputo, involving them in the production of a large-scale show. Whether on stage, at her grandmother's farm, or in a social project on the outskirts of Maputo, we see Lenna and the Mozambican artivists investigating the traditional and popular music of their country and discovering new paths. Navigating between activism and the stage, between the imagined Africa that Brazil expects to find in her, and the Brazilian cosmopolitanism that São Paulo imposes on her, Lenna discovers that her musical roots were even more powerful than she imagined.

Directed by: Rose Satiko G. Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft

São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana (2023)

The Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA) and the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) hereby extend an invitation to an indigenous film screening, which is to be held as part of the AntropoCena project on 12 November 2025, commencing at 2 p.m. Subsequent to the screenings, discussions shall take place with researchers and film directors Aline Regitano and Bruno Huyer.

Aline Regitano is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a researcher at CEstA - Center for Amerindian Studies. For a period of ten years, she has been engaged in research with the Mehinako people of the Upper Xingu, with a particular focus on research topics related to Amerindian corporeality, childbirth, care, and gender relations in the Indigenous Amazon.

Bruno Huyer is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at USP and a researcher associated with CEstA (Center for Amerindian Studies). He has experience of collaborative audiovisual productions with different indigenous peoples and has recently been dedicated to film and research projects with the Mbya Guarani in Rio Grande do Sul and Argentina.

Program:

The following presentation is entitled - "Haukanünu Nãu Iyayakapiri: What Mothers Say" (26 minutes)

On October 29, 2025, LISA will present a screening of two short films: Pretinhas do Arapemã, directed by Lia Malcher, and Lendas Vivas, written by Diego Alano. The presence of both filmmakers at the AntropoCena sessions, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, is noteworthy.

The screenings are scheduled to occur in the auditorium of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) on the following dates:

On October 29, 2025, scheduled sessions will commence at 7 p.m.

Pretinhas do Arapemã:
This brief documentary chronicles the history of Pretinhas do Arapemã, a dance and singing group comprised of 12 women hailing from the quilombo community of Arapemã, situated within the alluvial plains of the municipality of Santarém, in the western state of Pará. The songs of the quilombola community deal with memories, belonging, and experiences of being quilombola at the confluence of Amazonian riverside territoriality and black epistemes, producing their own music. The film also addresses the community's concern with the phenomenon of fallen lands, exacerbated by the traffic of large boats, and how music and dance become tools of resistance in the struggle for territory.

The Center for Anthropology, Performance, and Drama (NAPEDRA/USP) invites you to another unmissable event! This edition will feature a screening of Brazilian filmmaker Ana Rieper's documentary, released on October 8, 2025, during the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival. The film investigates how lyrics about sex and desire in funk music produced in Rio's favelas construct a powerful aesthetic and political discourse.

The event begins at 2 p.m. with the screening of the documentary. Immediately after, there will be a panel discussion with the director, Ana Rieper, singer and funk artist MC Carol, and anthropologist and professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Andrea Barbosa.

NAPEDRA looks forward to seeing you at this true funk dance of performance and desire — a space to celebrate the epistemologies we forge with our bodies and our insurgencies.

We invite you to a conversation about the film Desmemorias, created in partnership by Armando Fonseca and Rita Almeida de Castro. Rita will be present at the AntropoCena session, which will be moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji in the LISA Auditorium. De Castro is a professor in the Department of Performing Arts at UnB and completed her doctorate in anthropology at USP under Professor Sylvia Caiuby Novaes's guidance. Desmemórias was created in partnership with filmmaker Armando Fonseca and his theater group, Teatro do Instante.

Synopsis:

While dealing with forgetfulness and memory lapses, Narcisa finds herself immersed in the recovery of her memories. Her reinvention of reality transports her to other worlds, intertwining her current reveries with her former lucidity.

The film discusses forgetfulness and its consequences by presenting the perspectives of individuals with diseases similar to dementia or Alzheimer's and their friends' and family members' reactions.

To develop the script, dozens of interviews were conducted with family members and friends of people suffering from diseases that result in forgetfulness. The accounts of intimate coexistence with the sick person bring realistic elements to the plot, which also features playful sequences inside the character's head.

The cast includes the experienced Teatro do Instante group and is touring the festival circuit.

On October 21 at 2 p.m., LISA will host "Quimeras no Cinema," a shared film screening organized by the Art and Culture Festival and promoted by the Dean of Culture and University Extension in accordance with Resolution CoCEx 8451, dated July 30, 2023. The event will feature film screenings followed by a discussion with filmmakers.
Filmes em exibição:

• Carlos Caps Drag Race 2022. 25'. dir: Mirai Andrei Leaha
• Jail Birds 2024. 10'55''. dir: Kelly Koide
• Montando a Baiana 2024. 12. 11'25''. dir: Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos e Aurélio Prates Rodrigues 
• Tabuluja (Acordem!) 2017. 11'25'' dir: Shambuyi Wetu, Rose Satiko e Jasper Chalcraft 

Curatorial Text:

On October 22nd, in partnership with CINUSP and LISA, we are pleased to organize a special screening featuring two films by Frédéric Létang: The Earth and the Comb and Amazonia, Shadows and Lights. Both documentaries portray the same group of Amazonian settlers, first in 1996 and then in 2021, showcasing the entire trajectory of the southeastern region of Pará during this period.

The screening will begin at 2:00 pm with the first documentary, and the two will be shown consecutively. At the end of the screenings, there will be a discussion with the director and João Godoy (CINUSP).

São Palco will be featured at the Brazilian Film Festival Silêncio e Voz (Silence and Voice), held in Cologne, Germany, from October 28 to November 9. São Palco will be screened on November 1 at Filmforum NRW at Museum Ludwiglmforum.
 

About the exhibition:

“Silence and Voice. Brazilian Film Exhibition” brings together nine films that address themes such as violence, religion, race, and gender, as well as ways of strengthening, emancipating, and empowering people and groups that are invisible in Brazil. The selected works express the challenges and struggles faced in order to legitimize their existence in Brazilian society. These themes take on even greater relevance in the current global scenario, marked by the advance of political extremism, making them of interest to the entire international community.

To learn more, visit: https://www.qultor.de/festivals-und-events/silencio-e-voz-brasilianisch…