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Pivô Salvador presents, this Thursday, the 26th, starting at 2:30 pm, the films Apiyemiyekî? (2019) and É Noite na América (2022) by Brasília-born filmmaker and artist Ana Vaz at Saladearte CineMAM, at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia. The Ana Vaz Screening brings together two works that traverse territories haunted by colonial legacies. The program takes place as part of Ana Vaz’s visit to Salvador, at the invitation of Pivô. The screening will be presented as a double feature, with the films shown consecutively. Admission is free and subject to venue capacity.
Apiyemiyekî? (2019, 29’) is a cinematic portrait directed by Ana Vaz that takes as its starting point the archive of Egydio Schwade, Brazilian educator and Indigenous rights activist, preserved at Casa da Cultura de Urubuí and found in his home in Presidente Figueiredo (Amazonas), where more than 3,000 drawings from the first literacy process of the Waimiri-Atroari people are kept.
Based on the critical pedagogy of Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, the drawings became one of the first methods of exchange and reciprocal knowledge production. During these literacy exercises, the most recurring question asked by the Waimiri-Atroari was: why did Kamña (“the civilized”) kill Kiña (Waimiri-Atroari)? Apiyemiyekî? (Why?).
É Noite na América (2022, 66’) is a film shot on 16mm at the Brasília Zoo, home to hundreds of species rescued within the city. Anteaters, maned wolves, owls, crab-eating foxes, capybaras, and caracaras encounter biologists, veterinarians, caretakers, and environmental police in a somber narrative in which the challenges of preserving life weave together intersecting perspectives and question who, in fact, the real captives are.
After the screening, the experience expands with the open conversation Twisting the Gaze: Cinema and Insurrection at Pivô Boulevard, in Nazaré, at 6 pm. The talk brings together Ana Vaz alongside psychoanalyst Suely Rolnik, architect Dilton de Almeida, and curator Fernanda Brenner for an encounter shaped by projections, errant walks, listening sessions, sensorial experiences, and open dialogue. The event is open to the public and will feature a culinary activation by Cozinha Sorriso.
The screening is organized by Pivô in partnership with Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
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Ana Vaz Screening: screening of Apiyemiyekî? (2019) and É Noite na América (2022)
Location: Saladearte CineMAM (Av. Contorno, s/n)
Date: February 26 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30 pm
Free admission
Subject to venue capacity
Age rating: 10+
Open conversation: Twisting the Gaze: Cinema and Insurrection
Location: Pivô Boulevard (Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A, Nazaré)
Date: February 26 (Thursday)
Time: 6 pm
Free admission
Ana Vaz, an artist and filmmaker, was born on Brazil’s central plateau, haunted by the ghosts buried beneath the modernist federal capital of Brasília. Her filmography activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and as a tool capable of transforming human perception, expanding its connections with other forms of life—both more-than-human and spectral. Her work is marked by a constant experimental challenge to the poetic forms of contemporary cinema, highlighting the deep contradictions of our time and, above all, questioning the destructive practices of colonial modernity. As consequences or extensions of her cinematographic practice, her activities also unfold through writing, critical pedagogy, installations, and collective walks.