“Transflorestar - act l”, first film by Iara Rennó.
Invited by Pedro Meira Monteiro, professor at Princeton University and member of the Flip curatorial collective, Iara Rennó premieres her first film, leading the direction, script and acting, the film features new music, mixed with spoken poetry and documentary lines, also features editing and video art by Mary Gatis, art direction by Alma Negrot and guest appearances by Curumin and Ed Trombone.
Nhe'éry (pronounced nheeri) - theme of Flip 2021 - is what the Guarani people call the Atlantic Forest, a name that reveals the pluriversality of the forest. According to the filmmaker and leader of the Guarani Mbya people, Carlos Papá, Nhe'éry means “where souls bathe”. Carrying messages through strings of words, linking literature and making it essential to think about the world and the relationships between humans and non-humans.
“Transforesting” is the manifestation of nature in the profusion of sounds, images, words-fertilizer and food. A place where souls can bathe and spirit can expand into the whole. It's being a forest and flourishing.
In the narrative, songs and texts reverberate this concept, whether welcoming the immemorial forces of the Orixás of the forests, or in partnerships with Thalma de Freitas, Ava Rocha, Jaider Esbell, Tetê Espíndola and Alzira E. The plot finds inspiration in the stories of Davi Kopenawa, in “The Fall of Heaven”; in the speeches of Ailton Krenak; in compositions on fragments of texts by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and in the echoes of Makunaimã in “Macunaíma”, by Mário de Andrade.
The film also incorporates the possibility of a “(M)otherworld”, a legacy of the Burkinabe philosopher Sobonfu Somé, and the linguistic decolonial perspective proposed by Lélia Gonzalez in “Améfrica”. All in a mythical and dreamlike universe inhabited by Xapiri and Orisá, in which the roots of Yãkõana and Iroko are found under the Atlantic Ocean.
The film also incorporates the possibility of a “(M)otherworld”, a legacy of the Burkinabe philosopher Sobonfu Somé, and the linguistic decolonial perspective proposed by Lélia Gonzalez in “Améfrica”. All in a mythical and dreamlike universe inhabited by Xapiri and Orisá, in which the roots of Yãkõana and Iroko are found under the Atlantic Ocean.
