Filmes

Pulse - A video with Alessandra
Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

A shared anthropology experience, the video results from the meeting of anthropologist Rose Satiko Hikiji with Alessandra Cristina Raimundo, a young violinist who was concertmaster of a Guri Project orchestra for five years. The video presents…

Prelúdio
Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

Young music students talk about the meanings of learning in their lives. The soundtrack is the rehearsals and presentations of Projeto Guri, an initiative by the São Paulo State Department of Culture to teach music to children and young people…

Family Song
Paula Bessa Braz and Mihai Andrei Leaha

A family decides to open a classical music school in their own house. The young six Cruz brothers start to teach various musical instruments to the children in their neighborhood. Little by little the house becomes a musical meeting place in one…

The Stone has swung
Carolina Abreu e Marianna Monteiro

The stone has swung explores the exchanges between the popular tradition of Nego Fugido and the performing provocations of agitprop – agitation and propaganda – by theater companies in the metropolis. Transported from its traditional setting in…

Woya Hayi Mawe - where are you going to?
Rose Satiko G. Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft

Woya hayi mawe: where are you going to? These lyrics echo Mozambican musician Lenna Bahule’s explorations both in her birthplace - Maputo - and in her adopted home of São Paulo. From the stage to the urban outskirts, we see how Lenna deals with…

Forest of Tapes
Priscilla Ermel

In "Floresta de Fitas", the composer and multi-instrumentalist from São Paulo Priscilla Ermel revisits her artistic trajectory together with the poet Cora Coralina and the anthropologist Carmen Junqueira, revealing resonances between the musical…

What does Levi-Strauss own to the Amerindians?
Edson Tosta Matarezio Filho

Through interviews with leading experts in the work of the French Master of Anthropology - including some of his former students - this film intends to show how some fundamental concepts of Levi-Straussian Structuralism has its roots in the world…

Mutum Path
Edson Matarezio

The Ticuna Indian Ondino Casimiro is a very unique person in his people. One of the great connoisseurs of the so-called Festa da Moça Nova, the ritual of female initiation. His fame as a singer took him far, performing in Manaus, São Paulo and…

Afrosampas
Rose Satiko G. Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft

The African presence in Brazilian music manifests itself in different ways. If in 1966, Baden Powell “Rio-fied” candomblé with the Afro-sambas he composed with Vinícius de Moraes, half a century later we experienced an unprecedented moment with…

From over on the east side
Carolina Caffé e Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

From the East Side, where the city ends (or begins), comes rhymes, colours, and gestures which mark the space. For the artists of Cidade Tiradentes, their experience of the urban periphery provides both the basis and motivation for their works.…

Blessed, a saint who does not smile  
Ewelter Rocha

As a result of the doctoral research “Vestiges of the sacred: an ethnography of forms and silences”, the film makes a “pilgrimage” with the intention of locating the old blessed women in Juazeiro do Norte - CE and understanding the tensions…

São Palco – an Afropolitan City
Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

What do African artists who arrive in Brazil bring with them on their journey? How do Brazil's African diasporas interact - the new creative diaspora and the historic one that turned the Atlantic into a cemetery? What stages are sought…

MAPANA
Edson Matarezio

Mapana is the name of an association of women from the Ticuna people. Located in Belém do Solimões (8 thousand people), it is the largest community of this indigenous group, the largest one in Brazil. This association provides products from its…

In serenade night
Giulia Durães Gonçalves

In São Roque, in the interior of São Paulo, residents and tourists gather monthly in a centenary house to follow the performances of the Grupo de Choro, Seresta e Serenata, which for ten years has been rescuing musical practices from the local…

Marruá na Amazônia - Street, River and Forest Theater
Carolina Abreu

Performing street theater, a group of young artists travels at the Amazonian rainforest creating encounters and dances. Playing the siriri, cururu, coco, ciranda and boi the Grupo Teatral Parlendas invites the people to the square. With the play …

Iburi: Trumpet of Ticunas
Edson Tosta Matarezio Filho

This documentary records the process of building and running the trumpet Iburi, a Ticuna Indians instrument that is played during the ‘Festival of New Girl’, the female initiation ritual of the Ticunas. The girl who menstruated for the…

Planetary Tribe
Carolina Abreu

Drawing on nine years of ethnographic research, the film comprises an audiovisual essay on the experience of electronic music parties in Brazil – raves – and their celebration of a “tribe” that crosses national borders. Held during the Universo…

It was a woman's body
Ewelter Rocha

The essay “It was a woman's body”, by Ewelter Rocha, consists of an audiovisual ethnographic writing experience, having been conceived under the auspices of this presumption. In this perspective, we developed a narrative in which sounds, images,…

Two Brothers
Yuri Prado

Every September 27, Julio Valverde and his family perform a Cosme and Damião caruru at Soteropolitano, a Bahia food restaurant located in São Paulo. Over 25 years, the promise to offer this party has been fulfilled. Will it be able to withstand…

Dancing Black Memories
Érica Giesbrecht

In Campinas, São Paulo, black men and women, with ages between 70 and 90 years, are active in a black cultural movement, that is essentially dedicated to recreating African-Brazilian musical repertoires considered
traditional. Although seen…

What the river told me
Lia Malcher

The film “What the River Said to Me” follows the trajectory of singer and composer Cleide Vasconcelos from Quilombo do Arapemã, which is located on the left bank of the Amazon River in front of the city of Santarém, west of Pará. Cleide is a…