Uýra: The Rising Forest (Juliana Curi, 2022, 63 minutes, Brazil, USA, Portuguese w/ English subtitles, DCP) March 9, 2023 7:00pm Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Uýra, a trans-Indigenous artist, travels through the Amazon rainforest on a journey of self-discovery. Collaborating with village communities along the way, they use performance art, ancestral messages, and exquisite transformations—often[...]
Los Silencios (Beatriz Seigner, 2018, 89 minutes, Brazil, Spanish & Portuguese w/ English subtitles, DCP) March 24, 2023 7:00pm Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Nuria, Fabio and their mother Amparo arrive at an unknown island on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They are fleeing armed conflicts in Colombia and learn that their father,[...]
Three Short Films by Ana Vaz March 25, 2023 2:00pm Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Ana Vaz is a Brazilian artist & filmmaker whose films, installations & performances speculate upon the relationships between myth & history, self & other through a cosmology of references & perspectives. Assemblages of found & shot materials, her films combine[...]
The Unaffordable Social and Ecological Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Dr. Luis I. Prádanos (Iñaki) - Miami University Thursday, March 30th - 10:00am-11:00am Smith Warehouse, Bay 5, Amazon Lab Artificial Intelligence intensifies existing trends towards ecological collapse and social polarization through its high dependence on materials and energy, as well as its development in the context[...]
Translation, Media and Cosmopolitics a colloquium presented by the Amazon Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University - via Zoom - March 30, 2023 Translating Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma with translator Katrina Dodson and Lúcia Sá 1:00pm - 2:30pm (EST) A Conversation with Artist, Denilson Baniwa 3:30pm - 4:45pm (EST) Registration: https://cutt.ly/amazon_lab March[...]
TRANSLATION, MEDIA AND COSMOPOLITICS part 2 of a colloquium presented by the Amazon Lab Oraliteragraphic and Mirror Visions in Contemporary Indigenous Literature and Media in Abya Ayala Monday, April 3, 2023 - 12:00pm-2:00pm at Smith Warehouse, Bay 5, Amazon Lab free lunch provided RSVP at https://cutt.ly/translation Miguel Rocha Vivas. Associate Professor. Chair Literature Program, Pontificia Universidad[...]
The Amazon Lab is co-sponsoring a hybrid conference at Duke on April 6-8, “"Contemporary Epistemologies of Moving Images” (in-person and Zoom). This includes a panel on “Counter-Visualities of the Amazon” featuring members of the Amazon Lab: THURSDAY, APRIL 6 2:00-4:00PM COUNTER-VISUALITIES OF THE AMAZON Jamille Pinheiro Dias (University of London): "Indigenous Counter-Cartographies and Visual[...]
A conversation with Roberto Romero - the first event in the Amazon Lab’s seminar series on the Amazon, “Translation, Media, and Cosmopolitics.” Wed., 9/27/23, 12pm-1:00pm EST (1-2pm Brasilia; 5-6pm London) Hybrid (In-person and Zoom). Registration required! Register for in-person event here (at Amazon Lab, lunch provided) or register for Zoom event here. Roberto Romero is[...]
WE ARE GUARDIANS. (A film directed by Edivan Guajajara / Mídia Índia, Chelsea Greene / One Forest, Rob Grobman, 2023, 82 min. In Portuguese, Tupi, and English, with English subtitles) Interactive lecture with WE ARE GUARDIANS directors (Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman) and activist Puyr Tembé on Friday, September 29 at 12:00pm-1:30pm, at the[...]
WE ARE GUARDIANS. (A film directed by Edivan Guajajara / Mídia Índia, Chelsea Greene / One Forest, Rob Grobman, 2023, 82 min. In Portuguese, Tupi, and English, with English subtitles) Interactive lecture with WE ARE GUARDIANS directors (Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman) and activist Puyr Tembé on Friday, September 29 at 12:00pm-1:30pm, at the[...]
Amalia Córdova. Smithsonian Institute. Supervisory Curator, World Cultures; Chair of Cultural Research and Education. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Director of Mother Tongue Film Series. Monday. Oct. 9., 3:00-4:00 p.m. Location: Amazon Lab, FHI, Smith Warehouse, Bay 5, Duke University Amalia Córdova is a filmmaker, curator and scholar specializing in Indigenous film. She is[...]
(A tradução para o português está abaixo) Join us for a reflection on indigeneity and anthropology by two scholars who represent a vibrant new generation of Amazonian researchers. (in Portuguese and Spanish with simultaneous English translation) Hybrid: Registration required! Register for in-person event here (at Amazon Lab (Duke, Smith Warehouse, Bay 5), lunch provided) or[...]