EVENTOS

AntropoCena presents: Muxa - A Marca
Film screening and conversation with filmmakers

📅 October 29, 2026
🕠 at 5:30 pm

After the screening, Damë Bëtxun Matis, Chawa Matis, Lionel Rossini, directors of the film, participate in a conversation mediated by Nadja Marin, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and indigenist.

Short synopsis:
Twenty-four hours remain for Damë Bëtxun, Matis filmmaker, to receive on her face the mark that every Matis bears forever. In this wait, between fear and pride, it is his own voice that guides the spectator until the moment when the palm thorns make him, like his father before him, definitively Matis.

AntropoCena is a LISA initiative and aims to bring audiovisual production carried out by USP researchers to the public, through exhibitions and debates.

Participate!

AntropoCena presents: How Far the View Reaches - Film screening and conversation with directors

Participants: Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero
Mediation: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

As far as the eye can see
77 min. | Directed by: Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero

Three generations of indigenous Kariri-Xocó people join forces on an expedition to recognize the memorial territory of these people, stolen over the painful centuries of colonization. Their language, knowledge, and even sacred rituals were hidden as a survival strategy. Now, armed with cameras, drones, pipes, headdresses, and maracas, they travel along the geographic landmarks of their territory in a road movie that is also preparation for new retakes.

Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/1016183696?fl=pl&fe=cm

After the screening, Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero participate in a conversation mediated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, professor of anthropology and coordinator of LISA-USP.

AntropoCena is a LISA initiative and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by USP researchers, through exhibitions and debates.

We invite you to a discussion on AI in research, in a hybrid format. The event will take place in person at LISA-USP, with an online livestream and recording.

 Join us on Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/eea-rxsq-zoe

We look forward to seeing you!

On August 19 and 20, 2026, LISA-USP will host the Social Anthropology Postdoctoral Seminar: Music, Cinema, and Anthropology. Organized by the GRAVI and PAM research groups, the event aims to showcase ongoing research by postdoctoral fellows in Social Anthropology at FFLCH/USP focusing on "Music, Cinema, and Anthropology," as well as to foster dialogue and academic debate around these themes. The event is free and open to the public.

Program:

August 19, 2026 (Wednesday)
Moderator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Music, Ethnography, and Anthropology (Jorge Lampa, Rafael B. A. Norberto, Mateus de Oliveira, and Gabriel Improta França)
6:00 PM: Music session

August 20, 2026 (Thursday)
Moderator: Vitória Grunvald
3:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Audiovisual Media and Anthropology (Isabel Wittmann, Leandro Oliveira, and Diego Pinheiro)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Generative AI and academic work (Isabel Wittmann, Rafael B. A. Norberto, Mateus de Oliveira, and Leandro Oliveira)

PARTICIPANTS:

Diego Alano Pinheiro is an anthropologist, researcher, documentary filmmaker, and cultural producer originally from Santarém (Pará). Holding a PhD and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology, he pursues an interdisciplinary path spanning anthropology, cinema, dramaturgy, and Amazonian popular culture. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA)—funded by FAPESP (Grant No. 2023/06358-6)—conducting research on "Amazonian Cinema" (focusing on film production *of* and *in* the Amazon), with an emphasis on the relationships between visual anthropology, cinema, identity, and territory. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 2020 and taught within the PARFOR/CAPES/UFOPA program. His doctoral thesis—awarded a prize by the Brazilian Anthropology Association (ABA) in 2020 in the Anthropology and Human Rights category—investigated the therapeutic pathways and the social and political mobilization of scalp-avulsion victims in the Amazon; the work also resulted in a technical report for the Ministry of Health. In the audiovisual realm, he has directed and produced documentary, ethnographic, and fictional works, such as *Minha Vida por um Fio*, *Encante*, and *Erveiras: a cura vem das plantas* (which won an award at the 2023 Curta Xingu Festival). His interests lie in cinema, ethnographic film, the body, and the Amazon, particularly at their intersection with Social Anthropology.

Gabriel Improta França is a guitarist, composer, and arranger. He has released several solo albums and worked with major Brazilian music artists such as Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Paulo Moura, Francis Hime, and Jaques Morelenbaum. Improta França holds a Master’s degree in Music Composition from UNIRIO, studied guitar and improvisation at the Musicians Institute (GIT) in Los Angeles, USA, and earned a PhD in Social Sciences from PUC-RJ/EHESS (France) with research focused on the ethnography of samba-jazz musicians. Currently, Gabriel Improta is a professor of Popular Guitar at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and is conducting postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo (USP) in the field of audiovisual anthropology, focusing on guitar rhythmic patterns.

Isabel Wittmann is an anthropologist, researcher, and film critic. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP), working on the project "Fury and Chrome: Cyborgization and Gender in the Post-Humanist Construction of George Miller's Furiosa," supported by a CAPES PIPD grant. She earned her doctorate from the same program in 2023 with a thesis titled "Machinic Femininities: Gender, Sexuality, and the Bodies of Artificial Women in Fantastic Cinema." In 2021, she undertook a doctoral research placement in the Anthropology and Languages ​​of the Image program at the University of Siena (Università degli Studi di Siena), funded by a CAPES grant through the PRINT program (Institutional Program for Internationalization). She holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, 2008) and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM, 2016). Her master's thesis, titled "Body, Gender, and Identity: Transgender Experiences in the City of Manaus," was developed within the research area of ​​City, Heritage, and Urban Cultural Practices and funded by the Amazonas State Research Support Foundation (FAPEAM). In 2016, she founded the film criticism project *Feito por Elas* ("Made by Women"), which aims to analyze, discuss, and promote films created by women. She is a member of the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine) and the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci), and serves as an international voter for the Golden Globe Awards. Her work is interdisciplinary, focusing on the anthropology of cinema, gender, and sexuality.

Jorge Luiz Ribeiro de Vasconcelos (Jorge Lampa) is a professor at the Center for Culture, Languages, and Applied Technologies (CECULT) at the Federal University of the Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). He holds a degree in Popular Music (1993), a master's degree in Arts (2002), and a doctorate in Music (2010) from UNICAMP. He is currently conducting postdoctoral research (running until February 2027) at FFLCH-USP, affiliated with LISA-USP, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rose Hikiji. As a result of this partnership, he produced the film *Adó, Mestre dos Sons* (2025), which focuses on the Capoeira Angola master from Santo Amaro da Purificação of whom he is a disciple. A music educator, he maintains an artistic career in which he performs as a singer, *cantador* (traditional singer), singer-songwriter, and *cantator*. His current research project is titled "Between *gungas* and *gungas*: an ethnomusicological study of musical knowledge"; it focuses on two very different musical instruments that share the same name: the *gunga* (the lead *berimbau* in capoeira) and the *gunga* (an ankle rattle used in *maçambique* and *moçambique* traditions), examining their sonic practices within their respective contexts and their Afro-diasporic trajectories. He serves on the board of ABET (Brazilian Association of Ethnomusicology) as Second Secretary. He is affiliated with the research groups PAM-USP (Research in Musical Anthropology) and Mesclas-UFRB (Memory, Space, and Cultures Research Group).

Leandro Oliveira is an anthropologist, musician, and writer. He holds a degree in Social Sciences from PUC-Campinas (2010), a master’s degree in Social Sciences from UNESP (2013), and a doctorate in Sociology from UFSCar (2018). He is currently conducting postdoctoral research at the USP Department of Anthropology on the project "Eduardo Coutinho: Ethnographer," which focuses on the relationship between cinema and ethnography. Interested in the interplay between visual and sonic arts, he is a trumpeter trained at the Tatuí State Conservatory and co-produced the short film *Cássia Eller Fashionista*. He is a member of GRAVI (Visual Anthropology Group) and PAM (Research in the Anthropology of Music). He authored the book *Real e de Viés* and the thesis *Cinema de Favela: o real da ficção, a estética do político* (forthcoming). He has participated in projects such as *Brasil-África: Histórias Cruzadas* (UNESCO/MEC/UFSCar) and *Projeto Paidéia* (FAPESP/UNESP), as well as initiatives with NaMargem/UFSCar, and served as an editor for the journal *Cadernos de Campo* (UNESP). He works in training programs within the "S System" and other cultural initiatives, as well as in educational programs like MIPID/Campinas and NEAB/UFSCar. His professional background includes experience as a public school teacher and a civil servant in various municipalities; since 2022, he has worked at the Campinas City Hall Department of Administration. Recently, he has channeled his movement across different fields of activity into an interest in the relationships between art, urbanism, and public management, while also incorporating the day-to-day experience of institutions as a potential dimension of ethnographic inquiry.

Mateus Marcilio de Oliveira is an anthropologist, professor, researcher, and musician originally from Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo (USP), working on the project "It Was Once a Tree: An Ethnography of the Social Life of Wood in Musical Instrument Making," funded by FAPESP (Grant No. 2025/24509-7). Holding a PhD and a Master’s degree from the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum (PPGAS/MN - UFRJ), he conducts research in the fields of the anthropology of sound and musical practices, material culture, sensory studies, and political ecology. He also served as a visiting researcher in the Music Department at the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) in 2019–2020. His doctoral thesis, titled "Making Sounds: Materiality, Listening, and Value in the Regime of Musical Instrument Making," explores the material, technical, sensory, and sonological implications behind the manufacture of musical instruments, with listening and sound serving as the central themes. He is affiliated with the Phonographic Studies Group (NuSon/UFRJ), the Musical Anthropology Research Group (PAM/USP), and the Music and Sound Interest Group (MSIG/AAA).

Rafael Branquinho Abdala Norberto is a native of Ariquemes (Rondônia), where he began his musical journey during childhood with his mother and maternal grandfather, alongside private lessons in piano, guitar, and Western music theory; he also engaged with street music cultures such as Hip Hop/Rap and played guitar in the band *Os Químicos* between 2004 and 2006. His academic background includes, in summary: a Bachelor’s degree in Music (Guitar) from UEA (2010), involving undergraduate research via PAIC (with a FAPEAM scholarship); and Master’s (2016) and Doctoral (2020) degrees in Music (Musicology/Ethnomusicology) from UFRGS, including a period as a Visiting Researcher/Scholar at the University of Georgia (USA), supported by CAPES scholarships in Brazil (Proex) and the USA (PDSE No. 47/2017). He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology at FFLCH/USP since September 2025, joining the PAM research group (Research in Musical Anthropology) led by his supervisor, Prof. Dr. Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. His research and publications focus primarily on Amazonian musical phenomena—specifically *Beiradão* and the "Rap AM" circuit—as well as a current bibliographic survey mapping academic production on Hip Hop/Rap in Brazil. Since April 2022, he has served as a professor in the Music Education degree program at UFRR. He is an associate member of ANPPOM, ABET, ABEM, and the *Coletivo de Etnomusicologia Negra* (Black Ethnomusicology Collective). He served on the board of ABET from January 2022 to September 2024 as editor of the journal *Música e Cultura* and has actively participated in events organized by these and other nationally and internationally recognized academic associations. He is a researcher with the following CNPq research groups: PAM/USP, CEN/UFBA, GEM/UFRGS, MusiCuir/UFRR, and OREMUS/UFRR.

• Location: LISA Auditorium, Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Room 10, University City, São Paulo
• Event subject to space limitations
• No registration required

A gathering to discuss anthropological practice through the lens of Sylvia Caiuby Novaes’s career, from her work in Amerindian ethnology to visual anthropology, including photography and archival research, as well as her influence and the impact of the research she has supervised over the past decades.

📅 May 18 and 19, 2026

SCHEDULE

May 18

Panel 1 - 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Ethnologies: With Carlos Fausto, André Drago, João Kelmer, Pedro Meniconi, and Yuri Werner
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/vutGpNXY-dg

Panel 2 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ethnographic Practices: With Rose Satiko, Danilo Paiva Ramos, Luís Felipe Hirano, and Tatiana Lotierzo
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/6h-wZcXuaas

May 19

Panel 3 - 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Visualities: With Bruna Triana, Kelly Koide, Fábio Oliveira, Maria Júlia Vicentin, Laila Kontic, Rafael Hupsel, and Marianna Sanfelicio
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/KMiF8qbiJwc

Panel 4 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Experiments: With Vi Grunvald, Fabiana Bruno, Nadja Marin, Jeferson Carvalho, Kelwin Santos, and Josué Flores.
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/b27Pwg31WFQ

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.

• 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

On September 18, 2015, at 8 p.m., SESC Pinheiros will screen the film Montando a Baiana as part of the Encontro de Baianas Ricas event.

The directors of the film, Aurélio Prates and Kelwin Marques, as well as a researcher from the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP), will attend the film debate. The discussion will focus on the presence of Baianas Ricas in Maracatu Nation royal processions, particularly from the mid-20th century onward. During this period, individuals who challenged traditional gender norms, including transvestites and gay men, began to occupy central roles.

Supported by the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), the film explores the relationship between these Baianas Ricas of Maracatu and their ancestry. This relationship can stem from the memories of older baianas or from contact with non-human females, such as the Yabás, Mestras de Jurema, and Pombagiras.

For more information about the event, please visit: https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/montando-a-baiana/.

Between September 11 and 12, 2025, the Cinemateca Brasileira will host the seminar “Crossed views between France and Brazil on the challenges of preserving and accessing audiovisual heritage: focusing on the audiovisual memory of Indigenous Peoples”, with the support of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at USP (LISA-USP).

The event is free and will feature simultaneous French-Portuguese translation, interpretation in Libras, and live streaming on the Cinemateca's  YouTube channel. 

Focusing on indigenous memory, the seminar aims to discuss the representation and preservation of indigenous culture in audiovisual media, promoting its visibility and appreciation.

Check out the full schedule in link.

The film “Rio das Mortes: nossa vida” will be shown in the AntropoCena session on June 12, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in the LISA auditorium, in partnership with the Visual Anthropology Group of the University of São Paulo (GRAVI-USP), and will feature the presence of Ana Lúcia Ferraz, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Ethnographic Film Laboratory of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Ana Lúcia graduated from USP and holds a master's degree in Anthropology (1999), a PhD in Sociology (2005), and a postdoctoral degree in Social Anthropology (2010). She currently works in the fields of Indigenous Ethnology and Visual Anthropology, and is the author of a series of ethnographic films, including, with the Guarani Nhandeva, Nhande Ywy/Nosso Território (2018) and Öwawe dahoimanadzé/Rio das Mortes: nossa vida (2024).

It is a film that explores the ancestral territory of the A’uwé uptabi people (Xavante) and presents their relationship with the waters of the Rio das Mortes, which is threatened by hydroelectric dams. The objective of this ethnography in progress is to establish the territoriality of the A’uwé Xavante by documenting their diverse practices with the river, their cosmological conceptions, and the centrality of hunting in the A’uwé way of life in the Cerrado.

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

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

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) and the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP) invite you to the AntropoCena session of the film "Alma e Sangue no Atlântico Negro - O pensamento de Luiz Felipe de Alencastro", directed by Celso Prudente, professor at the School of Education at the University of São Paulo (FEUSP), with assistance from Ana Vitória Prudente, who will be present to discuss the work.

Ana Vitória is a PhD candidate in Education at USP, has a master's degree in Education from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a degree in Arts from the University of Évora, in Portugal. She works on the educational programs of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) and the Campos do Jordão Festival. She is a curatorial and production assistant for the International Black Cinema Festival (MICINE) and a production assistant for the Quilombo Academia Program on Rádio USP 93.7 FM.

With a duration of 37 minutes, "Alma e Sangue no Atlântico Negro - O pensamento de Luiz Felipe de Alencastro" was released in 2024 and was produced by Canal Futura, part of the Roberto Marinho Foundation. In a roundtable discussion with black personalities, the documentary is based on the political scientist's concept to discuss the strengths and challenges of the black population in Brazil.

AntropoCena is a LISA initiative and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by USP researchers, through exhibitions and debates.

• The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, room 10, University City, SP
• Free entry, subject to space limitations
• No registrations
• Certificate of participation, which will be sent by email ((request link: https://forms.gle/q5Fk63mjsVSvgNZE6)