Apiyemiyeki
Director: Ana Vaz
2020
Apiyemiyekî? is a cinematographic portrait that departs from Brazilian educator and indigenous rights militant Egydio Schwade’s archive – Casa da Cultura de Urubuí – found in his home at Presidente Figueiredo (Amazonas), where over 3.000 drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, during their frst literacy experience are currently kept. Te drawings document and construct a collective visual memory from their learning process, perspective and territory while attesting to a series of violent attacks they were submitted to during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil.
Credits
A film by Ana Vaz made with the generous support of Egydio Schwade
Drawings students of the Yawará School (1985-86), Waimiri-Atroari community
Sound, image and edit Ana Vaz
Sound design Ana Vaz and Nuno da Luz
Sound mix Miguel Martins
Color João Nunes
Line producers Keila Serruya Rafael Moretti
Co-produced by Anze Persin – Stenar Projects Olivier Marboeuf – Spectre Productions Annemiek van Gorp & Rene Goossens –De Productie
Comissioned by Sesc Belenzinho for the exhibition Meta-Archive 1964-1985: Space for listening and reading on the histories of the Military and Civil Dictatorship in Brazil
With the support of CNAP — Centre National des Arts Plastiques Media City Film Festival — Chrysalis Fellowship