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We are honored to announce the awards won by research projects and audiovisual works from our academic community at this prestigious festival:
1st Place (Medium-length Film): "Haukanünu Nãu Iyayakapiri – O que dizem as mães" (What Mothers Say), by Aline Regitano (CEstA researcher) and Warakina Mehinako. The film was produced by LISA as part of Regitano’s doctoral studies at PPGAS-USP, under the supervision of Marina Vanzolini.
1st Place (Feature-length Film): "Até Onde a Vista Alcança" (As Far as the Eye Can See), by Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero. The documentary stems from Alice Villela’s postdoctoral research at USP—supervised by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji (@rose.satiko)—within the scope of the FAPESP Thematic Project "O Musicar Local: novas trilhas para a etnomusicologia" (Making Music Locally: New Paths for Ethnomusicology), developed at UNICAMP and LISA. The film was produced by Laboratório Cisco.
2nd Place (Feature-length Film): "Drags in da' House…
LISA has just secured funding from three major grant programs, guaranteeing essential resources to strengthen research, preserve our anthropological collection, and promote scientific dissemination.
The project to upgrade the infrastructure of our Multi-User Center was one of 68 proposals approved under the "Call for Proposals for Strategic Research Infrastructure at USP 2026," issued by the Office of the Pro-Rector for Research and Innovation (PRPI). It aims to renovate the Laboratory's infrastructure and acquire new audiovisual equipment. The project is coordinated by Professor Rose Satiko Hikiji, and implementation will be carried out by the LISA-USP team—specifically Ricardo Dionisio, head of the Multi-User Center, and Leo Fuzer, responsible for the documentation and conservation of LISA’s collections.
Meanwhile, the project to acquire a cooling and dehumidification system for the storage facility was among the 38 proposals selected in the FAPESP call for Museum…
Researchers, artists, and filmmakers interested in submitting films, curatorial proposals, or photo essays that engage with the social sciences and their multiple forms of expression. The initiative seeks to highlight works that explore image and sound as forms of thought, research, and aesthetic experimentation.
📌 Submission deadline: June 15
Check out the Call for Submissions: https://www.encontro2026.anpocs.org.br/conteudo/view?ID_CONTEUDO=1025
"While we race to try and avert the next climate crisis, we are beginning to bury, on the Moon, a kind of memory capsule of Earth.
I don't know if this is comforting or disturbing. Perhaps both.
What interests me, as an anthropologist, is that this archive doesn't speak on behalf of an abstract humanity. It shows, albeit incompletely, that Earth has never been a single entity. It is made up of many forms of life and many ways of living, many ways of knowing, many conflicts and alliances between humans and non-humans, between forests and cities, between bacteria and satellites."
Guilherme Fagundes, professor in the Department of Anthropology at USP and vice-coordinator of LISA-USP, writes on the Piauí website about his participation in "Sanctuary on the Moon," a project that will preserve Earth's memories on the Moon. Access the full article at the link: https://piaui.…
The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) at USP (University of São Paulo) has a collection of approximately 2,000 films, 25,000 photographs, and 700 hours of sound recordings.
It functions as a support and promotion center for research, preservation of collections, dissemination, and training in Anthropology.
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We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the dossier “Old Archives, New Questions” of GIS – Gesture, Image and Sound, Journal of Anthropology, published by the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP), is now open until January 31, 2026.
We would like to invite you to submit a contribution. Please note that the journal includes several sections and submissions may be made either to the Articles section or to the GIS section, which gathers texts, essays, or works in video or audio format.
https://revistas.usp.br/gis/announcement/view/1975
Submissions are open until January 31, 2026.
DOSSIER - Old Archives, New Questions
In the past, museums, researchers and collectors were largely responsible for creating and circulating archives with the aim of presenting “the other.” Today, however, records of the past increasingly leave the…
Film produced in USP laboratory premieres on social media
On Black Awareness Day, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (Lisa) of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) of USP makes available on social media the film "São Palco - Afropolitan City"
The film São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana will be available on social media starting November 20th, Black Consciousness Day. The film is directed by Rose Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, both from the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (Lisa) of the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) of USP.
The film received the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival in June of this year, and the Ana Galano Award for best feature film from the National Association of Postgraduate Studies in Social Sciences (Anpocs). The work is the fourth production of the project “Being/Becoming African in Brazil:…
The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana, directed by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and produced in conjunction with the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), received the Ana Maria Galano Award for Best Feature Film during the awards ceremony of the 49th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS.
The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana, directed by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and produced in collaboration with the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), received the Ana Maria Galano Award for Best Feature Film during the awards ceremony of the 49th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS. The film will be available for one month on the event's website:
https://www.encontro2025.anpocs.org.br/conteudo/view?ID_CONTEUDO=1719
São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana is the fourth film resulting…
The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana, directed by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and produced in collaboration with the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), received the Ana Maria Galano Award for best feature film during the awards ceremony of the 49th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS. The film will be available for one month on the event's website: https://www.encontro2025.anpocs.org.br/conteudo/view?ID_CONTEUDO=1719
São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana is the fourth film resulting from the anthropologists' research with African artists who arrived in Brazil in the last decade. In the research, conducted in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology at USP, Rose and Jasper follow the protagonists in their artistic pursuits throughout the city of São Paulo. They observe the stages they occupy, the spaces they build with their music, the challenges they…
The September 2025 issue of Pesquisa FAPESP Magazine features two articles on the topic of immigration in Brazil.
The article "Brazil's New Position on the Map of International Migration" highlights how the rigid policies of countries in the Global North have redefined Brazil's position in the geopolitics of international migration. The article cites research conducted by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft on the artistic and musical scene of African immigrants in São Paulo, as part of the thematic project "Local Music: New Paths for Ethnomusicology", funded by FAPESP and supported by the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP).
Since 2016, researchers have been following artists from several African countries, resulting in the production of four documentaries produced by LISA-USP: Tabuluja (Acordem!), …