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

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will host on April 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m., the lecture "Ruins of photography: migrations of family archives and their ecosystems of belonging" by researcher Dr. Fabiana Bruno, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP supervised by Professor Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.

The lecture will address the context and policies of “emerging collections” formed with abandoned or discarded photos, in particular, vernacular family photographs unlinked from personal albums. The starting point will be the presentation of an overview of the stories of three “emerging collections” researched: Arab Image Foundation (AIF), Lebanon; Found Photo Foundation, England; and ACHO – Arquivo Coleção de Histórias Ordinárias, Brazil.

In these emerging collections, the collected and sheltered vernacular photographs – from diverse sources – acquire other ways of survival, when they are destined for a “second life” in re-gatherings, within the scope of “anarchical” initiatives (Seligmann-Silva, 2023) in different places around the world. In what way does the way of life of these photographs, when gathered in other archival environments, devoid of family belongings, point to other epistemologies of images and archives in anthropology?

The “ruins” (Tsing, 2019; 2022) of family albums, the destitution of their ecosystems of belonging and the “survival” and “assembly and reassembly” of these images (Warburg, 2010; and Didi-Huberman, 2013) are some of the topics discussed in the lecture.

Amazon Film Course: An Immersion in the Region’s Audiovisual Production

Audience: Researchers, producers, students and everyone who is interested in the cinematic richness of the Amazon.

Objective: The course offers a deep reflection on recent transformations in Amazon cinema, exploring the cultural and identity diversity of Amazonian filmmakers. Focusing especially on documentary productions, the course highlights the social, cultural and aesthetic issues that define cinema in this rich and plural region.

Period of Realization: from 02/04/2025 to 16/04/2025
Hourly Load: 15 hours
Places: 5 to 50 students
Certificate: For those who have 75% of attendance
Detailed Schedule 🎥
Session 1: History and Cinema of the Amazon (17/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Silvino Santos and the Amazonian discursive/visual tradition (Sávio Luis Stoco) and Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo (1920).
Session 2: The Amazon Seen through the Lens of "Others" (19/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Iracema, a transa amazônica e Amazônia S/A (Pindorama Filmes, 2015).
Session 3: Social Projects, Cinemas and Amazonias (24/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Cinema de beiras (Liendria Marla Malcher) and ÃGAWARAITA (2022, Priscila Tapajowara).
Session 4: The Amazon Seen through the Lens of the Amazonids (26/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
As Amazonas do Cinema Paraense (Alexandra Conceição) and Lendas Vidas (Anna Karla Lima, 2024).
Session 5: Representations of the Amazon in Fiction Films (31/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Images of the Amazon in International Cinema (Gustavo Gonçalves) and Matinta (2017) and Covato (2020).
Complementary Bibliography: A selection of readings on cinema, environment, and cultural resistance, including works by Adrian Cowell, Gustavo Ferreira, and more.

Coordination: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikji
Ministrants: Ester Paixão Corrêa and Diego Alano de Jesus Pereira Pinheiro
 

Registrations open from 19/03/2025 to 25/03/2025 through the Apollo System

For more information visit: https://sce.fflch.usp.br/node/6016