This series follows the investigations of archaeologist
Eduardo Góes Neves and his team at the archaeological site of Monte Castelo, a riverside shell mound built six thousand years ago by indigenous peoples who lived on the banks of the Guaporé river, in the state of Rondônia. The excavations reveal objects, adornments, and human remains in what used to be a cemetery, as well as agricultural remnants that prove how indigenous peoples transformed the forest, challenging the idea that the region was devoid of human presence.
Directed by tatiana toffoli
_amazOnia _arqueologia_da_floresta
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archaeology of the forest
Sesc Jazz’s fourth edition took place on october 2022 in a series of concerts, virtual activities and training sessions with both national and international artists. The festival brought together 20 different attractions in 54 concerts presented in 5 different cities, and some of the concerts were specially recorded for SescTV, such as Exploding Star Orchestra (US), Andre Christovam (BR), Abajur (BR+FR), Ilessi & Alaide Costa (BR), Suzana Baca (PE), Nicole Mitchell (US), Quarteto Negro (BR), Stracho Temelkovsk (FR), Orchestra Rumpilezz (BR) and Laercio de Freitas (BR).
Directed by DANIEL PEREIRA
_SESC_ _JAZZ_2022_
Based on the research from several archives, the series presents a collage of photographs, paintings, drawings, graphics and internet memes with excerpts from films, videos and choreographic works by artists from Brazil and other countries.
História de Gestos is based on the book Histoires de Gestes, written by Isabelle Launay and Marie Glon, and it proposes a journey through some well-known – but rarely questioned – gestures.
_HISTORIA_ _DE_GESTOS_
Directed by Elisabete Finger
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histories of gestures
Instrumental Sesc Brasil is Sesc’s pioneering project from the early 1980s that took instrumental concerts to the center stage. The shows were formatted for television in 1990, and they had already took place in a few different Sesc locations in São Paulo, creating a meeting place for newcomers and for established musicians from different genres. The project has reached more than 700 concerts so far, with musicians such as Baden Powell, Eumir Deodato, Vera Figueiredo, Nana Vasconcelos, Hermeto Pascoal, Janne do Bandolim and Yamandu Costa, among others.
Directed by MAX ALVIM
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Shot during Circos - International Circus Festival, run by Sesc São Paulo, the documentary mixes first-person accounts and live performances from multiple countries, and provides a panoramic view of the circus arts, presenting their origins, trajectories, and the difference between traditional and contemporary shows.
Directed by daniela cucchiarelli
_CIRCO_E..._CIRCO_
it’s a circus
A documentary told by the voices and perspectives of girls (ba’öno) and boys (até rémi), revealing the everyday lives of the a’wuê, children from the Xavante people, on the Pimentel Barbosa indigenous land, in the state of Mato Grosso.
By following their plays and activities such as fishing, forest adventures, river exploring, and lessons from the elders, we begin to understand how traditions passed down from generation to generation, in a cycle that echoes the need to respect nature and be part of it.
Directed by cristina floria and wagner pinto
_aute_auwe_uptabi:_ _ser_crianca_auwe_
aute auwe uptabi: to be an auwe child
The waters around the upper and middle Negro river, in Amazônia, are the territory of the Baré indigenous people. This ethnicity changed their original language, the baré, for the nheengatu (modern tupi, a latin american indigenous language) and the portuguese, under the influence of portuguese jesuits and carmelites. Despite this, the barés preserve their ancestors’ traditions, be it in cooking—based on fishing and cassava harvests—or cultural habits dedicated to legends and ceremonies like the kariamã, a rite of passage for teenagers into adult life.
Directed by tatiana toffoli
_bare_ _povo_do_rio_
bare, people from the river
Series of five documentaries that combine live performances recordings, interviews and historical research, and brings the audience the opportunity to know in depth the characteristics of each instrument and its role within an orchestra. Each film is named after its main theme: Percussão, a origem da música (Percussion, the origin of the music), O exército dos metais (The brass army), A democracia das madeiras (The wood democracy), A família das cordas (The strings family) and Piano, uma história de 300 anos (Piano, a 300-year story).
Directed by MARCELO MACHADO
_O_som_ _da_orquestra_ the orchestra's sound
Focusing on the importance of indigenous political leaders in the struggle for the defense of territories, the documentary presents the indigenous protagonism in the political struggle for their rights in different regions of the country, and proposes a reflection on the processes of articulation of these leaderships, their different forms of organization and their interactions both with internal structures in their communities, as well as with non-indigenous political structures.
Directed by marina herrero
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Biography of one of the greatest brazilian intellectuals: Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza.
Candido's work impacted historiography and literary criticism in Brazil, and continues to be essential in the training of students and professionals. In 2009, his granddaughter, journalist Maria Clara Vergueiro, recorded four lunches at the critic's apartment; from these affectionate encounters, the film shows the most intimate side of this beloved professor who taught for more than half a century at the University of São Paulo.
