The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group presents a film screening of Antonio & Piti, followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors, Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko as a part of their Water, Sound and Indigenous Film series.
Antonio & Piti
The Amonia River runs close to the Brazil /Peru border through the municipality of Major Thaumaturgo, house both of indigenous Ashaninka and white settlers. In this film, Piti, the daughter of Chico Coló, a white “rubber tapper soldier,” and Antonio, a Peruvian born indigenous man, share their memories about the prejudices they faced decades ago when they married against her family’s will. Antonio and Piti tells the story of love and affect that connects this rebel mixed couple, their ancestors, and their children to an on-going potent experiment of re-forestation that encompasses both communities, under indigenous leadership. The project faces attacks from reactionary forces who want to regain control of the indigenous land in order to re-establish a predatory extractivist economy. Asháninka and Portugese, 78 minutes, 2019.
With Co-Directors Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko. Response by Esther Hamburger, Arts. Organized by Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies, Ana Ochoa, Music and Maria Fantinato, Music.
Co-presented by the Center for Ethnomusicology; the School of the Arts; Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Center for the Study of Social Difference; Institute for Latin American Studies; and The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (part of the Audibilities Series)
The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group is funded by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University.