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I SHOW IJÃ MYTYLI FROM CINEMA MANOKI AND MYKY
CURING TIMES
For more than a year we have experienced a situation of great suffering for humanity. The disease that has imposed itself on human lives brings with it an opportune moment to slow down and rethink relationships with other living beings that cohabit the planet. How long have we been inflicting suffering on non-humans, destroying their abodes and annihilating their survival? We, the Manoki and Myky indigenous peoples , present the exhibition “Times of Healing”, visions of other possible worlds, which already exist among us, worlds in which we respect the coexistence with the Mju'u, the various “Mothers of the Earth” , who never it was one.
In the first session, “Times of Healing” , we present six films made in 2021 and one made in 2020, which talk about the current times of the disease and its respective cures, either through ancestral knowledge or scientific knowledge. In the second session, “Tempos de Aprendizado” , we show the oldest documentaries of the Coletivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky , whether when young people took their first steps in recording with the cameras, or in moments when we always continue to learn from our peers. Older.
We dedicate these works especially to the public from Brasnorten , who live in the territory inhabited by our ancestors, in which they were always well received by us, the first hosts of this land . We wish that our coexistence with the kewa (non-indigenous people) is always respectful and peaceful . For this, it is time to know more, through our documentaries, our ways of existence, so that our rights and dignity are recognized.
Session 1: Healing Times
Pinjawuli: the poison has reached me
Year: 2021 | 2 min
Between fiction and documentary, the film is based on a dream that Bih Kezo himself, the director of the short film, had. The Manoki and Myky peoples know that the beings who share the world with humans are asking for help, especially for the indigenous people, who know the existence of the Mju'u , the mothers of the earth. In the film, the plane chases Bih all over the village, as in reality: aircraft that spray poison on neighboring crops constantly fly over Paredão village, in Brasnorte-MT. Always at the time after planting, the community smells poison inside the village, which causes great concern to families considering the growing number of pesticides that have been released in Brazil, especially in the last five years.
Directed by: Bih Kezo
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
Sã'ananakini: You hear me
Year: 2021 | 13 min
The film narrates the life story of the elder Alípio Iranche Xinuli, his childhood as an orphan, his departure to the Jesuit mission in Utiariti, his marriage and his return to the indigenous land, where he opened a new village and raised a large family. From a conversation with his mother, Valmir Xinuli, Alípio's grandson and director of the documentary, proposes a conversation with his descendants, remembering his walk in this land, his teachings, and funny episodes with his grandfather, who died at the end of 2020 of covid-19, the only fatal victim of this virus in the Manoki people.
Directed by: Valmir Xinuli
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
Xipi käja: our healthy foods
Year: 2021 | 12 min
An account of the resistance of the Manoki people during the pandemic, through the consumption of healthy foods as a way to face COVID 19. Directed by Tipuici Manoki, the short was filmed and edited in 2021 by Coletivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky, in the villages of Cravari, Treze de Maio and Asa Branca.
Directed by: Marta Tipuici Manoki
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
Piny Pyta: the strength of our medicines
Year: 2021 | 20 min
An account of the resistance of the Manoki people during the pandemic, through the use of traditional medicines and other strategies to deal with a disease that says a lot about the way non-indigenous people relate to animals. Filmed and edited in 2021 by Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky in Paredão village.
Directed by: Bih Kezo and Cileuza Jemjusi
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
Ulapa Taka'a - Known Kids
Year: 2021 | 20 min
It started as a joke that turned into a playful filming exercise in which the camera, protagonists and other characters playfully interact and introduce their community. Through the eyes of four girls between 11 and 12 years old, we are taken to know the fields, health center, school, soccer field and other spaces in the Paredão village, in the municipality of Brasnorte - MT.
Directed by: Bih Kezo
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
Jãkany Ãkakjey: : our food
Year: 2021 | 20 min
This short film deals with the food of the Myky people, where all families have their gardens, with varieties of food. In addition, there is the community garden, where they work with a sacred ritual, called Yetá. All the families participate in the preparations, the gardens are cut down in the dry season and burned immediately afterwards, meanwhile the seeds are kept by the fire so that they can be planted at the beginning of the rains and harvested the following year The film shows a little of the preparations of this ritual, such as the manioc harvest made by the Myky women. Following the film, some older people talk about traditional foods and the new types of food that we live with today.
Directed by: Typju Myky
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
Myky community against covid-19
Year: 2020 | 6 min
Until that moment, even though the coronavirus had not yet reached the families of the Myky people, in northwest Mato Grosso, the population was mobilizing to avoid the disease. A gate was built on the road that connects the territory to the cities, trips to the municipality decreased, the elders took medicine and prayed for their protection, some families held fishing camps to distance themselves even further from the dangers. A record made by Typju Myky of a difficult context, especially for indigenous peoples, which we hope to overcome in the near future.
Directed by: Typju Myky and Minã Myky
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky and Rede CineFlecha
Session 2: Learning Times
Jamäxi Kany'i Pyriny - Jamäxi's Basket
Year: 2021 | 12 min
Jamäxi Myky takes us through a detailed class on how to make pyri, the Myky people's freighter basket, also known as xire in the region. Braided with bamboo that he took from the forest, the creation of the basket by Jamäxi is an immersion in the relationships of humour, affection and wisdom between an older man and three girls who immortalize him through the recordings of this short film.
Directed by: Kamtinuwy Myky, Mãnynu Myky and Takarauku Myky Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli by Cinema Manoki and Myky
Mãkakoxi Kany'i Ynpakje'y - The Rings of Mãkakoxi
Year: 2020 | 5 min
Tucum coconut is an element widely used by indigenous artisans to make various artifacts in their daily lives. Three young Myky women record for the first time the process of making the tucum rings with Mãkakoxi, a skilled artisan from the Japuíra village, located in the Brazilian Amazon, in the northwest region of the state of Mato Grosso.
Directed by: Kamtinuwy Myky, Mãnynu Myky and Takarauku Myky
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli by Cinema Manoki and Myky
weaving our ways
Year: 2019 | 6 min
Only six elders of the Manoki population in the Brazilian Amazon still speak the indigenous language, an imminent risk of losing this important dimension of their ways of existence. Determined to resume their language with the elders, the younger ones decide to narrate their challenges and desires in images and words. From the analogy with the fragility of cotton that becomes strong thread to support the weight in the hammock, Marta Tipuici talks about the resistance of her people, her relationship with her grandmother and the hope that they will speak their language again in the new generations.
Directed by: Cledson Kajoli, Jackson Xinunxi and Marta Tipuici
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
Ãjãí: Myky and Manoki's head game
Year: 2019 | 49 minutes
Synopsis: Ãjãí is a fun game in which only the players' heads can touch the ball. This practice, shared by few indigenous peoples in the world, is present among the Myky and Manoki populations of Mato Grosso, who speak a language of an isolated linguistic family. Young indigenous people of the Myky people decide to film and edit their game for the first time, to publicize it outside the villages. But to organize this great party, your young bosses will face some challenges ahead.
Directed by: Typju Myky and André Lopes
Realization: LISA-USP / Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki e Myky
The spirits only understand our language
Year: 2019 | 5 min
Only six elders of the Manoki population in the Brazilian Amazon still speak the indigenous language, an imminent risk of losing the means by which they communicate with their spirits. Despite this being a difficult subject, the younger ones decide to narrate in images and words their version of this long history of relations with non-indigenous people, talking about their pain, challenges and desires. Despite all the difficulties of the current context, the struggle and hope echo in several dimensions of the short film, indicating that “the Manoki language will live!”.
Directed by: Cileuza Jemjusi, Robert Tamuxi and Valdeilson Jolasi
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
Pequi for sale
Year: 2013 | 24 min
The Manoki indigenous people live in northwest Mato Grosso and one of their productive activities is the sale of pequi on the road that passes through their land. During a video workshop, young people decide to show the world a little bit of their villages and the process of collecting and selling this fruit. Instigated by the possibility of filming and being the protagonists themselves, they go looking for the old people in an attempt to find out if there is any story about the origin of the pequi.
Directed by: João Paulo Kajoli and André Lopes
Realization: Ponto de Cultura Manoki Indigenous Memory Centers / LISA-USP
The Baptism of the Manoki Boys
Year: 2009 | 114 min
In 2009, after 14 years without performing the male initiation ritual into adulthood, due to the message received in a dream, the possibility of gathering a large group of boys and the opportunity to record the event, the Manoki decided to perform the ceremony. This was the first experience in which the indigenous youth themselves began to record their images. This moment of recovery was very important for the people, who returned to perform similar ceremonies in 2014 and 2018.
Editing: André Lopes and Manoki Men
Production: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky / Curator: André Tupxi Lopes
Support: City Hall of Brasnorte (MT) - Aldir Blanc Law and FUNAI - CTL Brasnorte (MT)
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