AntropoCena will show the film Floresta de Fitas

By Vanessa Munhoz • LISA Communication
Published: 09/12/2025

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23-09-2025 - 24-09-2025
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Auditório do LISA

We invite you to a lively conversation about the film "Floresta de Fitas", directed by Priscilla Ermel, who will be present at the AntropoCena sessions, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

The screenings will take place in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) on the following dates:

September 23, 2025: Sessions at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
September 24, 2025: Session at 7:00 PM

In "Floresta de Fitas," São Paulo-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Priscilla Ermel revisits her artistic trajectory alongside poet Cora Coralina and anthropologist Carmen Junqueira, revealing resonances between the musical creations in analog studios in the 1980s and the dreamlike universe of the Cinta-Larga indigenous people with whom the artist lived during this period. The script is interwoven with the stories of these characters featured on her first album, "Saber Sobre Viver," produced by legendary sound engineer Hugo Gama.

With a solid artistic and academic background, Priscilla Ermel is a composer, multimedia artist, and anthropologist. Her diverse work is disseminated through albums and audiovisual productions, notably the film "Ti Etê: Rios de Luz - Sinfonia Multi-Étnica" (2016), recorded by the Orquestra Brasil Jazz-Sinfônica, with the participation of the Ikolen Gavião Indians (RO) and the Cupuaçu Group (MA), and the double vinyl album "Origens da Luz" (2020), produced by John Gómez: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/priscilla-ermel-origens-da-luz/

He also produced other highly relevant audiovisual projects, such as "Fire of the Tides," "The Bow and the Lyre," "Brilho da Noite," "Prazer Com Sagrado," "O Canto das Canoas," "A História em Versos," and "Os Engenhos de Chiquinho Carneiro."
Part of his musical work, in turn, is published on the albums "Saber Sobre Viver" (1985), "Tai-Chi, Gestos de Equilíbrio" (1989), "Cine Mato Gráfico" (1990), "Campo de Sonhos" (1991), and the collections "Essencial" (1994), "Brazilian Lullaby" (1999), "Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1978-1992" (2017), and "Outro Tempo II" (2019).

With a deep knowledge of Brazilian traditional and popular music, Priscilla was the musical director of TV Globo's "Som Brasil" program in 1989, and was responsible for numerous soundtracks for theater, television, video, and film. She recently performed with the group Líricas Históricas on the "Sonora Brasil - Líricas Femininas" tour (2019).

As an anthropologist, she published two academic works: her master's dissertation in indigenous ethnomusicology “The Mythical Sense of Sound - Aesthetic Resonances of the Music of the Cinta-Larga Indians” (1988), from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), and her doctoral thesis in sociology of black-African music “The Word of Music - Initiation into the Black-African Dogon Sound Universe”, developed at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP (FFLCH). She completed a postdoctoral degree in audiovisual anthropology with the project "Oral Tradition in Brazilian Music", at the Department of Anthropology of USP, and during her research she completed a specialization internship at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale (LAS) of the Collège de France, Paris.

She is currently an associate researcher in the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI) and the Musical Anthropology Research Group (PAM) at LISA-USP. As a filmmaker of ethnopoetic documentaries, her work "The Bow and the Lyre" won international awards: https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/node/212​​​​​​​

Learn more about Priscilla Ermel on the website: www.priscillaermel.com.br

AntropoCena is a LISA initiative that aims to bring audiovisual productions by USP researchers to the public through screenings and discussions.