Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon (2008/2009)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) dedicated some of the most poetic passages of his influential Tristes Tropiques (1955) to the Nambikwara Indians with whom he lived in 1938. Seventy years after, Fortaleza Flores’ film weaves past and present together through revisiting the same villages where the anthropologist lived and visiting others that have been contacted since. Interviews with Lévi-Strauss and Tito Wakalitesu (the only Nambikwara Indian who remembers the 1938 expedition), rare archival footage filmed by Lévi-Strauss, scenes of Marechal Rondon’s expedition (1907-1915), Rio Papagaio and the Utiarity falls, along with the many aspects of the lives of Nambikwara Indians present both a portrayal of today and the mutual reminiscences of Lévi-Strauss and the Nambikwara. Completed in early November 2008, Claude Lévi-Strauss: Auprès de l'Amazonie (52 minutes) was part of the events celebrating the centenary of the anthropologist at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. A 72-minute version was also edited and first screened at Festival do Rio 2009.
Directed by
Marcelo Fortaleza Flores
Cinematography
Sylvestre Campe
Sound
Pedro Sa Earp
Assistant Director
Murat Eyuboglu
Production Manager
Rafaela Vargas
Production Director
Alaine Bastide
Edited by
Bénédicte Mallet and Marcelo Fortaleza Flores
Original music by
Caito Marcondes and Marlui Miranda
A production of
13 Production
with the participation of
France 5 and Indiana Produções
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon
has participated in the following festivals:
• Festival do Rio, premiere,
• Musée du quai Branly, premiere (52 min. version)
• Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma
• L'Etat Generale du Film Documentaire (Lussas, France)
• London International Documentary Film Festival
• Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental de Lisboa
• Rencontres des Cinemas de l'Amerique Latine (Toulouse, France)
• Festival International Jean Rouch (Paris, closing night)
• Sunscreen Film Festival (Florida, US)
• Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival (Germany)
• Le Festival du cinéma brésilien (Paris)
• Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (closing night)
• Festival Brésil en Mouvement (Paris, opening night)
• Royal Anthropological Film Festival (London)
(Screenings are of the 72 min. version unless otherwise specified)
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Murat Eyuboglu, Marcelo Fortaleza Flores, Sylvestre Campe, |