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The ethnographic film "Bibiru: Kaikuxi Panema" won four international awards in the first half of 2024. At the 25th International Environmental Film and Video Festival - FICA, the documentary won in the following categories: Acari Passos Award for Best Medium-Length, José Petrillo Press Trophy and Jesco Von Putkammer Award, from the Young Jury. The festival took place in the city of Goiás during the month of June and received more than a thousand entries of different film genres, which were connected to environmental themes. It was also elected in the Best Green and Environment Film category by the jury of the Cineparis Film Festival, which brought together artists and filmmakers in Paris in June focused on discovering new talents and works. In July, the film was nominated for the XV Pierre Verger Film Award, promoted by the Brazilian Anthropology Association, one of the main competitive festivals of works produced within the scope of anthropological research in Latin America.…
Evandro Lima, master of the Post-Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS-USP) and former fellow of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), was awarded in 2024 with the Transatlantic Photography Award 2024. The award consisted of a trip and activities at the LetteVerein School in Berlin. The award-winning photo shoot was held during the Festa dos Nordestinos do Jardim Record, an action of the collective Árido 2 de Julho, held in Taboão da Serra, metropolitan region of São Paulo.
For Evandro, the award represents the validation of his work. Son of northeastern parents, he considers that the images produced during the event, in addition to contributing to his training as an anthropologist, also help preserve the image and culture of immigrant populations. During his stay in the German capital, the researcher attended workshops, visits to sights, exhibitions, museums and art galleries. In addition to…
Award-winning thesis follows the cinema of the Manoki and Myky indigenous peoples
An anthropologist who offers audiovisual workshops in villages in Mato Grosso analyzed films on themes such as traditional games and rituals and the relationships between humans and non-humans
Through audiovisual language, the Manoki and Myky indigenous peoples found a way to share their practices and stories. The engagement of young people with audiovisual led to the reactivation of traditions of these peoples, who live in Mato Grosso, the creation of a film collective and the production of some award-winning films. It was from researcher André Lopes' contact and relationship with this process that the doctoral thesis Ijã Mytyli: The Manoki and the Mỹky in their new paths - audiovisual stories was born, winner of the USP 2024 Outstanding Thesis Award in the Innovation category.
A graduate in Social Sciences, André Lopes has been working with the Manoki in the state of Mato…
The ninth volume of GIS - Gesture, Image, and Sound - Journal of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo is now available.
We invite you to visit the GIS website and read the articles, essays, reviews, translations and interviews published in this volume, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/issue/view/13258.
Enjoy your reading!
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Folha de São Paulo highlighted the exhibition "Trajetórias Cruzadas", which brings together, for the first time, the records of photographers Maureen Bisilliat, Claudia Andujar and Lux Vidal about Brazilian indigenous peoples.
These three foreigners arrived in Brazil in the 1950s and, during the dictatorship, dedicated their lenses and research to portraying indigenous cultures ignored by the government. Bisilliat, who photographed the Xingu at the invitation of indigenous people, summarizes her approach: “My talent was to enter without disturbing and be accepted. If I was good at photography, it’s because I knew how to enter something new without being noticed.”
In the BBC article, the highlight is Claudia Andujar, the article mentions both the exhibition “Trajetórias Cruzadas” and “Claudia Andujar - My life in two worlds”, exhibited at the Pinacoteca of São Paulo.
"They are polyglots, they never lost their accent, but they don't exactly have a…
The way of Alabê - Rhythms of the orixás and the Brazilian music" taught by Vitor da Trindade and Elis Trindade
The second edition of the course on culture and university extension entitled The way of Alabê - Rhythms of the orixás and Brazilian music, promoted and held at the Sound and Image Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA) and at the Popular Theatre Solano Trindade (TPST), with support from the Department of Anthropology at USP. The course was coordinated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, professor at USP’s Department of Anthropology (DA-USP) and coordinator of LISA, and taught by Vitor Israel Trindade de Souza, musician, master in ethnomusicology from the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) of USP, president and artistic director of Teatro Popular Solano Trindade, and by Elis Sibere dos Santos Monte Trindade de Souza, Afro-Brazilian dance teacher, choreographer and cultural coordinator of Teatro Popular Solano Trindade.
The activities took place…
It is with great satisfaction that we communicate that the doctoral thesis "Ijã Mytyli: The Manoki and the Mỹky in their new audiovisual-stories" of the researcher André Luís Lopes Neves, under the guidance of professor Renato Sztutman, received the USP Outstanding Thesis Award in the area of knowledge of Innovation.
André defended his PhD thesis in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2023 and, since 2008, has been researching and working with the peoples Manoki and Mỹky, in the state of Mato Grosso. In addition, since 2011, has been conducting audiovisual workshops with five other indigenous peoples of Brazil, with activities involving production, filming, editing and directing videos in a shared way.
During his doctoral research, André produced two feature films and five short films co-directed by indigenous people, which are part of his thesis. Besides method, the use of audiovisual resources was a form of mediation of the study…
The Cultura na USP Program, on Rádio USP, interviewed on 10/24/2024 the curators of the exhibition "Trajetórias Cruzadas", which is on display from Tuesday to Sunday, including holidays, from 10am to 6pm, free of charge at the MariAntonia Center.
Anthropologists Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Fabiana Bruno talked about the collection of 300 images by Claudia Andujar, Lux Vidal and Maureen Bisilliat that show a Brazil little known even by Brazilians. The three photographers born in Europe had similar trajectories in Brazil after personal experiences marked by the Second World War.
Access the full interview at link: https://jornal.usp.br/podcast/cultura-na-usp-65-exposicao-no-centro-mariantonia-destaca-tres-fotografas-nascidas-na-europa/
USP Culture Program Team #65
Presentation | Elcio Silva
Production | Elcio Silva and Fabio Rubira
Technical Work | Bene Ribeiro
Video capture | Elcio Silva
Video editing | Denner Costa
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Directed by Aurélio Prates and Kelwin Marques, the short is the first editing exercise based on images taken in São Paulo and Recife. In the royal processions of the Nations of Maracatu, in the middle of the 20th century, the figure of the Baiana began to be occupied by transvestites, chickens, and other bodies for which femininity was not presupposed. The film seeks to present the relationship of the Bahianas Ricas do maracatu with their ancestries, which can occur both from the memory of the older Bahian women, as well as from contact with more-than-human females such as the Yabás, the Mestras de Jurema, Pombagiras, etc.
Kelwin is a master's student in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP), supervised by professor Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, and a researcher at the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI). He has experience in the areas of photography, visual anthropology, anthropology of Afro-Brazilian populations and ethnomusicology.
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In the 2024 edition, the Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology (JAVEM) magazine presents a curation of five films that explore the multisensory dimensions of the interaction between music, culture and multimedia, in addition to standing out for the search for interactive methodologies, the exploration of sensory experiences and of the complex socio-political worlds in which music is present. Among the selected works, the new edition of JAVEM features two productions carried out by researchers from the Musical Anthropology Research Group (PAM) at the University of São Paulo (USP).
Open Gasy presents the challenges a Malagasy musician faces in the French World Music scene, the complexities of the work, the need for adaptation and the complexities of musical authenticity. Directed by Yuri Prado, the film is available on the website of the USP Image and Sound in Anthropology Laboratory (LISA). Yuri Prado is a postdoctoral student in Social Anthropology at USP, supervised by…