Brazilian Documentary and Ethnographic Films

Both groups of indi­ge­neous brasil­ians, the Waiãpi and the Zo’e, belong to the Tupi lan­guage family and share quite a bit of their tra­di­tions. But while the Waiãpi have been … read more

CONFIDENCES FROM THE RIVER OF DEATH is an inti­mate doc­u­men­tary, which attempts to ana­lyze the rela­tion­ship of people and envi­ron­ment, work and his­to­ry through the oral his­to­ry, passed on from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion. A pic­ture of what is left, in fact and in the imag­i­na­tion of the sur­viv­ing pop­u­la­tion in the cities, vil­lages, quilom­bos (the hiding place of negro fugi­tive and rebel slaves) and indian vil­lages at »Rio das Mortes«, a gold mining front in the Brasil­ian Province of Minas Gerais. By jux­ta­pos­ing the con­fi­dents of the descen­dants of negro slaves, indian abo­rig­ines and white colo­nials the rich and com­plex his­to­ry of a cul­tur­al land­scape is unfolded.

Paschoal Samora wurde am 24. Mai 1968 in São Paulo geboren. Er studierte Film an der »Fun­dação Arman­do Alvares Pen­tea­do«. Er arbeit­et als Regis­seur, Pro­duzent, Autor und Kam­era­mann. Films: LET THE SUN SHINE S-8 (1997): 3 PLATEAUS AND 1 BALLOON (1998); FRONTEIRAS (1998)

Intro­duc­ing the video at the Waiapi in the con­text of the »Video in the Vil­lages« project. 

Doc­u­men­tary on the life and work of French ethno­g­ra­ph­er and fotog­ra­ph­er Pierre Verger (1902, Paris/France – 1996, Sal­vador de Bahia/Brazil) whose stud­ies revealed the rec­i­p­ro­cal cul­tur­al influ­ences between Brazil and … read more