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Ana Vaz Screening: Pivô Salvador presents two films by the Brasília-born filmmaker at Saladearte CineMAM this Thursday (26)
Pivô Salvador presented, on Febuary 26th, a double screening of Apiyemiyekî? (2019) and É Noite na América (2022) by Brasília-born filmmaker and artist Ana Vaz at Saladearte CineMAM, located at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia.
The Ana Vaz Screening brought together two works that traverse territories haunted by colonial legacies. The program was part of Vaz’s visit to Salvador at the invitation of Pivô. The films were shown consecutively in a double feature.
In her filmography, Vaz 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. Although distinct, the films “seek, with a certain fury and intensity, to make us see and feel stories of burial and erasure—which is the history of modernity—and possible paths of escape amidst it all,” reflects the artist.
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. For the filmmaker, the film emerged from the desire to portray the violence of a far-right government from the perspective of those most forgotten by history. “Those who were expelled from what we call the urbis, the city—the animals removed from that place for the construction of this utopia. I consider them refugees of the great monoculture plantation project. É Noite na América follows, in part, the trajectory of these animals caught in this predicament, in this very tenuous, ambiguous, and difficult space of being between two worlds,” she concludes.
After the screening, the experience was expanded with the open conversation Twisting the Gaze: Cinema and Insurrection at Pivô Boulevard, in Nazaré. The talk brought 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 featured a culinary activation by Cozinha Sorriso.
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Ana Vaz Screening: Apiyemiyekî? (2019) and É Noite na América (2022) at CineMAM
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
