Conversation & Screening

(Re) Exist in the Present, Imagine the Future: Indigenous Cinemas in Brazil and North America in Times of Extreme Violence

Wed, May 3, 2023

2:30 PM–8:30 PM

Tow Center for the Performing Arts, 2920 Campus Rd, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. Please register below.

Join us for this multidisciplinary event featuring screenings of Brazilian Indigenous films and Native North American films, focusing on the perspectives of Indigenous women, their vital narratives, and their connection to the environment and land protection. The roundtables and Q&As with scholars and filmmakers will address the role of Indigenous cinema in creating spaces of (re)existence in times of extreme violence and repression while imagining futures.

Free and open to all. Click here to REGISTER and attend this event.

Afternoon Session – Women with Cameras – 2:30 – 5:30 PM

Screening (60min)

Pohã Re’yi – Família dos Remédios – Family of Healing (2022 , 6 min) dir. Joilson Brites, Jhonathan Gomes, Wagner Gomes, Anailson Flores (Guarani Kaiowá)

Horse You See (2010, 7min) dir. Melissa Henry (Navajo)

Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa – We Will Walk the Trail of our Ancestors (6 min) dir. Princess Daazhraii Johnson with Alisha Carlson (Gwich’in)

Mãtãnãg, A Encantada – The enchanted (14 min) dir. Shawara Maxakali e Charles Bicalho (Maxakali)
Mia (8 min) dir. Dir. Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Michif)

Roundtable Discussion (60min)

Faye Ginsburg (Ethnographyy, NYU)

Sueli Maxacali (Film Director)

Dijana Jelača(Film Studies, Brooklyn College)

Reception (60 min)

Evening Session- War Against the Forest– 5:30 – 8:30 PM

Screening (70min)

Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land! (2021, 70min), Directors: Sueli Maxacali, Isael Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, and Roberto Romero (Maxakali)

Roundtable Discussion (60min)

Sueli Maxacali and Carolina Canguçu (film directors)

Marina Bedran (Latin American studies, Johns Hopkins)

Robert Stam (film studies, NYU)

Reception (60min)

Coordinators: Fernanda Faya and Julia Miras

Sponsors: Brooklyn College Film Department

Co-sponsors: Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, TUJU; Center for Creativity and Research; The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center; Women’s and Gender Studies; NYU Center for Media, Culture & History; VMPA, Brooklyn College; Instituto Guimarães Rosa; Consulate General of Brazil in NY.