“Hosts half a century ago: the mỹky version of history” will be shown in the AntropoCena session

Film produced by LISA had its premiere at the UN Forum and the American Museum of Natural History

The film “Hosts Half a Century Ago: The Mỹky Version of History”, co-produced by the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) in partnership with the Ijã Mytyli Collective of Manoki and Mỹky Cinema, had its premiere at an exhibition organized by the Latin American Coordination of Cinema and Indigenous Peoples (CLACPI) and New York University (NYU). The screening took place on April 25, 2025 and was part of a side event of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Director Typju Mỹky also participated in the Forum, as the first Mỹky person to represent his people at the United Nations (UN), and denounced the current impasse in which the process of demarcation of his land finds itself, after it was canceled by the Minister of Justice of the Bolsonaro Government, Anderson Torres. The screening of the film, which addresses the theme of the mỹky territory, featured a session commented in person by the directors and professors Faye Ginsburg, Professor of Anthropology and coordinator of the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU, and Amalia Córdova, curator of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The documentary also participated on May 4 in the Margaret Mead Film Festival, an important ethnographic film festival that has been held for over 40 years at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The documentary will have its official premiere next week, on May 22, at 8 pm, in a session at CineSesc and will also be shown in the LISA auditorium, as part of the AntropoCena project, in partnership with the Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA-USP) and the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP), in the session on the 23rd, at 2 pm. These sessions will be attended by a delegation of five Mỹky representatives, composed of filmmakers and elders. They are coming to São Paulo for the first time and will present this work to the public, along with other members of the team. André Lopes, one of the film's directors, is a researcher at GRAVI-USP and defended his doctorate at PPGAS-USP in 2022. Since 2012, André has been making films in partnership with indigenous interlocutors, with support from LISA in finalizing the work.

Synopsis: The film presents the perspective of the Mỹky people on 50 years of contact with the non-indigenous population of Mato Grosso, reflecting on the transformations experienced in their lives and in their ancestral territory.

AntropoCena is an initiative of LISA and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by researchers from USP, through screenings and debates.

• The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
• Free entry, subject to space limitations
• No registrations