Speakers: Kelly Koide and Yuri Prado
Kelly Koide has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (USP), with an internship at Université Lyon I. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP, where she carries out research on the trajectory and work of Claudia Andujar and Maureen Bisilliat. Researcher at the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI – USP).
Yuri Prado has a PhD in Music from ECA-USP, with an internship at Université Paris VIII. He is a postdoctoral fellow in Anthropology at FFLCH-USP, having recently completed a research internship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His research has been dedicated to the ethnomusicological study of individuals, focusing on the figures of Julio Valverde and Charles Kely Zana-Rotsy.
The films “Jail Birds” and “Open Gasy”, directed, respectively, by post-doctoral students Kelly Koide and Yuri Prado, have in common the focus on artists from an ethnobiographical perspective. In “Jail Birds”, artist Henrietta Mantooth talks about her works, which discuss mass incarceration in the USA, in her studio in Manhattan and during the assembly of a permanent exhibition at Hudson County Community College. “Open Gasy” portrays the trajectory of Charles Kely Zana-Rotsy, a Malagasy guitarist and singer who played a significant role in the world music scene in France. By screening the two films, the directors intend to discuss the challenges of film production in a foreign country, as well as the establishment, in a limited time, of an ethnographic relationship mediated by the camera.