Reserva Cultural e Cine Bijou
"São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" is among those selected for the "Territories and Memory Competition" at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival. The competition is aimed at Brazilian productions or co-productions that address issues related to one or more territories in the country or that address themes linked to individual or collective memories.
Considered the most important South American event for audiovisual production linked to socio-environmental themes, the Ecofalante Film Festival has free admission to all of its activities and will take place from May 28 to June 11, 2025.
The film "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" will be shown at the following cinemas:
Reserva Cultural, room 03 - Avenida Paulista 900, Paraíso
Thursday, May 29, at 7:00 p.m., followed by a debate with the film's director Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
Cine Bijou - Praça Franklin Roosevelt 172, Consolação
Sunday 06/01, at 4:00 p.m.
Synopsis:
What do African artists who have arrived in Brazil in recent years bring with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas – the new creative diaspora and the one that has turned the Atlantic into a cemetery – interact? What stages are occupied, built, and filled with the performances of artists who have crossed the ocean? Ancestralities are updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be bold and color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana 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.
Direction, photography, and research:
Jasper Chalcraft
Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
From 04-29-25 until 07-01-25
Online
Registration for the extension course "Documentary and Ethnography in Brazil: The Cinema of Eduardo Coutinho" is open until April 21, 2025. It will be held from April 29, 2025 to July 1, 2025, in distance learning.
The course aims to explore the relationship between Eduardo Coutinho's documentary cinema and ethnographic practice, highlighting how the Brazilian filmmaker uses documentary as a tool for reflecting on the social reality of Brazil, especially after 1960. Based on the analysis of key works by Coutinho, the course seeks to investigate the specificities of his cinematic approach, which dialogues with anthropological methods of observation, description and the prioritization of the local and the particular. In addition, it intends to discuss the historical and aesthetic impact of documentary cinema in Brazil, considering that Coutinho produced films over half a century, which configures his work as a kind of documentation of the historical, social and political inflections that marked the country during this period. The course also aims to fill a gap in academic studies on Coutinho's work within anthropology, offering a critical and integrated reading of cinema and ethnography.
Duration: 10 hours
Certificate of participation
Vacancies: 50 participants
To register, access the Apolo System (click here) and follow the instructions.
For complete information about the course, registration, exemption and enrollment, access the FFLCH Culture and Extension Service website: https://sce.fflch.usp.br/node/6029
If you have any difficulties during registration, ask the Apolo System team for help: apolo@usp.br
From 04-25-25 until 06-27-25
Local LISA e FFLCH-USP
Schedule:
April 25 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Making the living: an anthropology of metamorphosis
Location: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) - FFLCH-USP
May 9 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Felipe Mammoli (UNICAMP)
Forest of knowledge and mystery: an ethnography of computational modeling of vegetation in the AmazonFACE program
Location: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) - FFLCH-USP
May 23 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Maria Lua Vieira (USP) e Jéssica Cardoso (USP)
Discussion of research projects
Location: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) - FFLCH-USP
June 6 (Friday) | 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Jean Segata (UFRGS / Ca'Foscari Venezia)
Genetic taming and the narrowing of multispecies futures
Location: Auditorium 8 of FFLCH-USP
June 27 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Luisa Fanaro (UFSCAR)
Seeking 'the best of both worlds': how a black truffle hunting dog (Tuber melanosporum) is made in Chile
Location: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) - FFLCH-USP