We invite you to a sonic conversation about the film "Floresta de Fitas," directed by Priscilla Ermel, who will be present at the AntropoCena sessions, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.
The screenings will take place in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP), on:
September 23, 2025: sessions at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
September 24, 2025: session at 7:00 PM
In "Floresta de Fitas," São Paulo-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Priscilla Ermel revisits her artistic trajectory alongside poet Cora Coralina and anthropologist Carmen Junqueira, revealing resonances between the musical creations in analog studios in the 1980s and the dreamlike universe of the Cinta-Larga indigenous people with whom she lived during this period. The script is woven through the stories of these characters featured on her debut album, "Saber Sobre Viver," produced by legendary sound engineer Hugo Gama.
With a solid artistic and academic background, Priscilla Ermel is a composer, multimedia artist, and anthropologist. Her work is diverse and disseminated through albums and audiovisual productions, notably the film "Ti Etê: Rios de Luz - Sinfonia Multi-Étnica" (2016), recorded by the Orquestra Brasil Jazz-Sinfônica, with the participation of the Ikolen Gavião Indians (RO) and the Cupuaçu Group (MA), and the double vinyl album "Origens da Luz" (2020), produced by John Gómez: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/priscilla-ermel-origens-da-luz/
She has also produced other highly relevant audiovisual projects, such as "Fogo das Marés," "O Arco e a Lira," "Brilho da Noite," "Prazer Com Sagrado," "O Canto das Canoas," "A História em Versos," and "Os Engenhos de Chiquinho Carneiro." Part of her musical work, in turn, is published on the albums "Saber Sobre Viver" (1985), "Tai-Chi, Gestos de Equilíbrio" (1989), "Cine Mato Gráfico" (1990), "Campo de Sonhos" (1991), and the collections "Essencial" (1994), "Brazilian Lullaby" (1999), "Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1978-1992" (2017), and "Outro Tempo II" (2019).
With a deep knowledge of Brazilian traditional and popular music, Priscilla was the musical director of the TV Globo program "Som Brasil" in 1989, and was responsible for numerous soundtracks for theater, television, video, and film. She recently performed with the group Líricas Históricas on the tour of the project "Sonora Brasil - Líricas Femininas" (2019).
As an anthropologist, she published two academic works: her master's dissertation in Indigenous ethnomusicology, "The Mythical Sense of Sound - Aesthetic Resonances of the Music of the Cinta-Larga Indians" (1988), from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), and her doctoral thesis in the sociology of Black-African music, "The Word of Music - Introduction to the Black-African Dogon Sound Universe," developed at the School of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in audiovisual anthropology with the project "Oral Tradition in Brazilian Music" at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. During her research, she completed a specialization internship at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (LAS) at the Collège de France in Paris.
She is currently an associate researcher in the research groups based at LISA-USP: Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI) and Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM). As a filmmaker of ethnopoetic documentaries, her work "The Bow and the Lyre" won international awards: https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/node/212
Learn more about Priscilla Ermel on the website: www.priscillaermel.com.br
AntropoCena is a LISA initiative that aims to bring audiovisual productions by USP researchers to the public through screenings and discussions.
- The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, No. 181, Favo/Room 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
- Free admission, subject to space limitations
- No registration required