Paper short abstract:

This paper is focused on a collaborative project between an anthropologist, a filmmaker and an archival specialist regarding a documentary film on a threatened indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon. Particular attention is paid to the COVID-19 pandemic, ethnographic narrative and cosmology.

Paper long abstract:

Based on the ethnographic archive's, documents and an interview on anthropological aspects about the Hupd'äh, people who are living in the Northwest of the Amazon, Brazil, a film were completed during this sars-covid19 pandemic time and presents the traditional knowledge of the Hupd'äh extracted from the speeches of three clan chiefs: Bihit, Casi, and Mehtiw. This paper is focused on a collaborative project between an anthropologist, a filmmaker and an archival specialist regarding a documentary film on a threatened indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon. A particular attention was paid to ethnographic information, cosmology narratives and traditional knowledge. This presentation will seek to discuss some issues on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to visual anthropology from the conception to the final production of the film. One of the main issues that will be debated are around the use of photographic, film archives and ethnographic information collected in previous years that come together with a current anthropological analysis to compose the main narrative of the film. This paper is the result of a collaborative work in the realization of the film "The Enchanted Words of the Hupd'äh of the Amazon - Masters of Knowledge Narrated by Renato Athias" who has had done research and documentary films since 1972 about the Hupd'äh, Mina Rad, a French documentary director, has made the film that evoke the unique aspects of the cosmology of this now threatened population and Isabel Castro who have been the film editor, a Paris-based scholar of using archives in fieldwork.