Join the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU for a screening of Video Nas Aldeias /Video in the Villages: Yaõkwá, Image and Memory, an ongoing project initiated in 1985 by filmmakers Vincent Carelli and Virginia Valadão. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Film Director, Vincent Carelli, and with Robert Stam (NYU Cinema Studies), and Amalia Cordova (Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution).
Co-Sponsored by CLACS, Tisch. Cinema Studies, and the Native Studies Forum.
About the film:
Video in the Villages, an ongoing project initiated in 1985 by filmmakers Vincent Carelli and Virginia Valadão, uses media technologies in partnership with Indigenous people as a tool of empowerment for their fight to preserve their lands and ways of life. For 15 years, this project has worked collaboratively with the Enawenê-nawê people in Mato Grosso Brazil, creating extensive records of the Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, that maintains the balance of the earthly world as a spiritual place. In the award-winning film Yaõkwá, Image and Memory, the Enawenê encounters mages recorded 25 years ago.