Apiyemiyeki Ana Vaz, 2019

Apiyemiyeki was produced for the survey exhibition MetaArchive 19641985: Space for Listening and Reading on the Histories of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (Sesc, Sao Paulo), together with a series of newly commissioned works dedicated to constructing a critical cosmology of the period. The film is a cinematographic portrait that departs from Brazilian educator and indigenous rights militant Egydio Schwade s archive Casa da Cultura de Urubui found in his home at Presidente Figueiredo (Amazonas), where are currently kept over 3. 000 drawings made by the Waimiri Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, during their first literacy experience. Based on Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire s critical pedagogy, drawings became one of the first methods for reciprocal knowledge exchange and production.