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The documentary “Weaving our paths”, a short film completed at LISA-USP in 2019, won an honorable mention at GIEFF 2022, translation of “Germany International Ethnographic Film Festival”, which took place in the German city of Göttingen. The film is directed by researchers Marta Tipuici Manoki, a master's student in the graduate program in social anthropology at USP, and produced by André Lopes, a doctoral student in the same program, both under the guidance of Professor Renato Sztutman. The two researchers in the field of visual anthropology and indigenous ethnology have a long collaboration and have already worked on other documentaries produced by the Coletivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki e Mỹky, formed by young filmmakers from both peoples, and of which they are part. 

The film addresses the relationship of young Manoki with their indigenous language, which belongs to an isolated linguistic family. Currently only four elders speak their language, an imminent risk of losing this important dimension of their ways of existence. Determined to take up their language with their elders, Marta Tipuici, Cledson Kanunxi and Jackson Xinunxi, the three directors of the film, decide to narrate in images and words their challenges and desires. From the analogy with the fragility of cotton that becomes strong thread to support the weight in the hammock, the protagonist Marta Tipuici narrates the resistance of her people, her relationship with her grandmother (who died shortly after seeing the finished film) and the hope of returning to speak their language in the new generations. The film was the result of video workshops that André has been offering in recent years in Manoki villages.

The film was completed in 2019 at LISA with the support of the editor Ricardo Dionisio and, even without external resources to carry out the production, the short film was recognized in some instances: it won the Eduardo Coutinho award for best national documentary ( Alvorada Film Festival – RS) and was selected for several film festivals in the United States, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Chile and Germany, where he received the last award. 

In addition to the presence of André Lopes and Typju Mỹky (a member of the same indigenous film collective that represented his cousin Tipuici at the event), the German festival also had the presence of two other researchers from PPGAS-USP, the post -doctoral student Mihai Andrei Leaha and doctoral student Paula Bessa Braz. They also presented and discussed their ethnographic film, made with the support of LISA: Canto de Família, completed in 2020. Paula and Mihai also discussed the collaborative engagements in the production process of a second film, Drags In Da House, to be launched this year, also with the support of LISA. His lines, "Filming (in) Times of Crisis: Reflecting upon visual politics and collaboration against controlling images in Brazil", by Paula Bessa Braz, and "Collaborative Engagements with the DIY Electronic Music Scene of São Paulo", by Mihai Andrei Leaha, were presented at the Collaboration and Authorial Diversity in Film symposium, an event that integrated the program of the Gottingen Ethnographic Film Festival. At this symposium, Typjiu Myky and André Lopes also contributed the speech "Collaborative Films in Indigenous Terms". Afterwards, the four researchers also presented two conferences on collaborative anthropology at the Humboldt Forum, in the city of Berlin. 

The mentioned films can be watched on the LISA website or on its Vimeo channel. To learn more about the productions of Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky, access the website: www.ijamytyli.org 

LISA promotes the Pierre Verger Prize, promoted by the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), which is the main competitive festival of film, photographic and graphic works produced in the context of anthropological research in Latin America. Through these artistic languages ​​and policies of knowledge diffusion, his shows explore, register, express and challenge different sociocultural contexts and experiences.

The award show will include different ethnographic films, drawings and photo essays, which will be available on the website from August 22nd to September 3rd.

Check out more at: https://www.ppv2022.abant.org.br/site/capa

We invite you to submit your work for volume 8 (year 2023) of Revista Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia (GIS). To do so, make your submission until 08/30/2022.

Check the submission rules at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/about/submissions

After this date, you will also be able to submit your work which, if approved, will be published in volume 9, year 2024.

Afro-Sampas, a film produced at LISA and co-directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, was selected for the film show of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology. The film can be seen at https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/afrosampas

More information about the project at http://www.usp.br/afrosampas

Film show website: https://apa2022.apantropologia.org/chamada-filmes/

The film Woya Hayi Mawe - Where are you going?, produced by LISA directed by Rose Satiko Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft and edited by Ricardo Dionisio, received the Honorable Mention in the feature film category, at the Ana Maria Galano award, at the 45th. ANPOCS Annual Meeting. The film and other materials from the anthropologists' research with African artists residing in São Paulo are available at http://www.usp.br/afrosampas

Link to JUSP article: https://jornal.usp.br/?p=440977

The ethnographic film “Canto de Família”, by Paula Bessa Braz, doctoral student at PPGAS, and Mihai Andrei Leaha, post-doctoral student, had its premiere at the In-Edit Brasil festival of Musical Documentary.

The film was made with the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP and with the support of LISA, based on research conducted by Paula during her master's degree on the “affective music” that inhabits the home and the daily life of the Cruz Family at outskirts of Fortaleza. The film received a special mention from the jury, highlighting the sensitive and direct way in which it addresses family life and its unique relationship with music, which is revealed in subtleties, gestures, words and sounds. "Canto de Família" will be available online and free of charge until 30/06 on the In-Edit platform, and from then on it will be shown for three months on the SPCine platform.

https://br.in-edit.tv/film/243

Find out more on GIS website: www.revistas.usp.br/gis

Instigated by the intelligible and sensitive religious knowledge of traditional religions and the various forms of spiritual belonging that escape the formal religious structure, but connect the human being with what he calls sacred, we seek in this dossier to build a map of the representations that pass through their images, their performances that reveal rituals and sacred belongings.The expressive forms gain different nuances in religious spaces, in view of certain restrictions, which means that the researcher has to resort to different aesthetic and research strategies to compose his universe imagetic and performative. & nbsp; The symbolic universe of religious rituals, the digressions between religion and politics, the expressions of decoloniality, the body given to devotion and other analyzes involving discussions about sensitive expressions through images, performances, poetry etc., will be well welcome.

Deadline for submissions:16 may 2021

Submissions and guidelines for authors: www.revistas.usp.br/gis/submissions

EDITORIAL TEAM
Chief Editor: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
Editorial Coordinator: Paula Morgado
Responsible Editor vol 6: Francirosy Campos Barbosa (USP), Pedro Simonard (UNIT),  Rubens Alves da Silva (UFMG)
Executive Secretary: Lucas Ramiro
Trainee: Leonardo Pereira dos Santos
 
Editorial Committee: Andrea Barbosa, Edgar Teodoro da Cunha, Érica Giesbrecht, Francirosy Campos Barbosa, John Cowart Dawsey, Paula Morgado, Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Vitor Grunvald

"New York, another city", a film by Brazilian anthropologists and documentary filmmakers André Lopes (phD candidate PPGAS-USP) and Joana Brandão (UFSB), was awarded last Saturday, March 27, with the award for best documentary short at the international ethnographic film festival of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI). The film was awarded the Marsh Short Film Prize which awards "the most outstanding short documentary in anthropology or archaeology", according to the festival's words. RAI is one of the largest and most important ethnographic film festivals in the world, having received film entries from 75 countries in 2021. The film was the only Brazilian work awarded at the festival.

"New York, another city" (2019, 18 min) recounts the experience of Brazilian indigenous filmmaker Patrícia Ferreira Para Yxapy in New York and her reflections when visiting the American Museum of Natural History. By deconstructing the colonial strategies of representation of the great museum through the gaze of Patricia herself, the documentary is an exercise in reverse anthropology, in which western ways of thinking and representing indigenous peoples are scrutinized by the powerful speeches of the indigenous filmmaker. The contradictions of life in the North American metropolis and of non-indians in general are also addressed by the young leadership of the Mbya Guarani people compared to the ways of their people's existence.

André Lopes is a phD student oriented by Professor Renato Sztutman in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, and, like Joana Brandão, made the film during a period of research abroad, when the filmmakers remained as visiting researchers in the Department of Anthropology of The University of New York, under the guidance of Professor Faye Ginsburg. Both had a grant from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).

Watch the movie trailer at the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMMGOBxmZY&t=14s

The full movie is available for a limited time at the link:

https://amotara.org/portfolio/new-york-just-another-city/