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 Paralello festival, which took place on the paradisiacal Ilha D'Ajuda (BA) for New Year's Eve 2010, it deals with interactions between ravers and indigenous people who were specially invited to the event. Through the juxtaposition of spectacle and ritual, the technological party reveals utopias, hopes and tensions.
Technical data: NTSC, color, 37min, 2011
Direction, research and script: Carolina Abreu
Editing: Ricardo Fernandes, Leo Fuzer
Submission: Marcelo Demari
Additional Voice-Off: Ana Teixeira
Audio Mixing: André Rato
Production: Performance and Drama Anthropology Center – NAPEDRA
Production: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP)
Thematic Project "Anthropology of performance: Aesthetic and ritual drama"
Research Project: Rave Experience: Between the spectacle and the Ritual
Support: FAPESP
Festival: Selected for the IX Pierre Verger Award of Ethnographic Video of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (2012). July 4, 2012