A 32-minute gut punch about a people who learned to film their own extinction and survival.
Comments on the history of a people, made by the filmmakers and their characters. From the time of contact, through captivity in rubber plantations, to the current work with video, the testimonies give meaning to the process of dispersion, loss and reunion experienced by the Huni kui.
Direction
Yube lets subjects control their own image, radical for 2008.
Editing
Jumps between archival silence and present testimony, devastating.
Production
Community-made, not extractive — the camera belongs to them.
Director
Zezinho Yube
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Brazil's 'Vídeo nas Aldeias' movement, where Indigenous communities were given cameras to document themselves rather than be documented.
The title references both spiritual transformation and literal becoming-image — the Huni kui using colonizer technology to refuse disappearance.
BR
