Free course, part of the programming of the Tikmư'ưn/Maxakali* Film Festival, taught by researchers Ana Estrela da Costa and Paula Berbert.
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If much of the so-called Western filmic experiences are concentrated in the act of capturing and recording images, on the audiovisual production of the filmmakers of the Tikmư'ưn/Maxakali people such experiences are as relational gestures, in marked continuity with the aesthetic regimes of look and listening conformed in shamanic practices carried out with the yãmưyxop, enchanted-singer sings, spirit-spirited peoples. As these experiences shared between filmmakers, "characters", shamans and yãmưyxop become cinematic products, other forms of relationship emerge beyond the villages, since such films constitute devices of encounter with other indigenous peoples and also with non-indigenous peoples. By expanding the cosmopolitical territories through which the Tikmư ́ưn/Maxakali circulate, as well as its agency possibilities, its cinema unveils itself as a powerful tool for translation between worlds.
The aim of this course is to reflect on the specificities of the tikmư ́ưn/maxakali mode of making cinema. For this, each session will highlight key elements that seem to give us a sense of whole to the intense audiovisual production of this people: the relations between cinema, ritual, body, territory and memory.
TARGET AUDIENCE: from 18 years. Maximum of 40 students.
Lesson 1 - Cine Maxakali: Cine-Caça-Ritual - 25/03, Thursday, 19h - 21h
Experiences of meetings between worlds. Cinema celebrates invisible presences, shares images between bodies that dance and listen to each other, look at each other, hide, seek, avoid each other, meet.
Lesson 2 - Making Territory - Memory. - 30/03, Tuesday, 19h - 21h
The beginnings and ends of the world are stories you don't forget. Memory is on earth and in the corners, and is shared with us through cinema
Lesson 3 - Making Body - Ưn Ka ́Ok - 01/04, Thursday, 19h - 21h
The rituals of initiation, growth and exchanges show the impossibility of fixed corporalities that experience a static reality. Cinema composes and gives to see bodies that are constantly produced through relational experiences with the yãmưyxop.
It is the feminine desire that motivates the arrival of the yãmưyxop to sing, dance and eat in the villages. The gaze and listening of women are the intense affections that keep alive and dynamic the alliances between worlds.