Vrijdag 5 juni, 20:30
Echoes from the Amazon
With a discussion afterwards
NL Van de Transamazônica-snelweg tot de overstroomde oevers van Belo Monte en de ruige stromingen van de Rio das Mortes. Drie vrouwelijke filmmakers doorbreken de traditionele documentaireconventies met animatie, sciencefiction en live performance om vorm te geven aan wat door de winning van grondstoffen in het Amazonegebied tot zwijgen wordt gebracht: de queer geesten, verdronken stemmen en drijvende brokstukken die herinneren aan wat vernietigd is. Na de films volgt een discussie.
EN From the Transamazônica highway to the flooded banks of Belo Monte and the rough currents of the Rio das Mortes, three women filmmakers disrupt documentary with animation, sci-fi and live performance to give form to what extraction silences in the Amazon forest: the queer spirits, drowned voices, and drifting debris that remember what was destroyed. The films will be followed by a discussion.
Curupira e a máquina do destino
Janaina Wagner | 2021 | Brazil | 25’ | EN subtitles
On the roads Transamazônica, BR-319 and the real village of Realidade, in the south of Amazonia, the encounter between the entity Curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.
Altamira 2043
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha | 2021 | Brazil | 25’
Live Performance documentation, edited by Flora Reznik (2026)
Implanted at the epicentre of the planet’s so-called ‘green-lungs’, the giant Belo Monte barrage has, since its construction in 2012, earned its rightful place as the emblem of man’s destruction of nature. This performative installation by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, a chamber of resistance to this Anthropocene symbol, evokes the sound of the river Xingu and its secrets in a voluptuous way. Altamira 2042 is a polyphony of noises, sonorities, timbres, trembling, sighs and desires of the shadow and light voice of rivers themselves, carried along by chants which are usually reduced to silence. Flash drives and LED loud-speakers carried and activated by the performer herself become the vectors of a transmission and amplification of both human and non-human voices emanating from the river Xingu and its banks: riverside populations, indigenous – Juruna and Arawaté – populations, journalists, ecologists, rappers, artists, anthropologists, animals, forest rainfall and the ebbs and flows of the river. A performance-ritual, Altamira 2042, is a techno-shamanic experience which takes place in close proximity to the spectators. Alternating between trance and dance, it disrupts the archaic frontier between nature and culture via a contrast between high-tech mediums and the subject matter itself.
Rio das Mortes
Flora Reznik | 2025 | Brazil | 14’ | EN subtitles
In the heart of the Amazon, a lost Indonesian rubber tire drifts with the river current of the Rio das Mortes. On its final journey downstream, it listens to the secrets shared by the local inhabitants that speak of a fragile ecosystem under threat and of the powerful spirits of the river they call home. Along the way, the drifting tire awakens an ancestral memory that binds it to this place.
This program would not be possible without the exceptional collaboration between Dimitra Alexiou, Flora Reznik and Anne Vera Veen. This program is connected to the ongoing program Brazil: Unfiltered. Thank you everyone for your insights and suggestions, and for making this program possible.