PANEL 15: Transflorestar – Act I

With Iara Rennó

In this year’s Flip, singer, songwriter and poet Iara Rennó premieres the movie Transflorestar – Act I. A hybrid work with direction, screenplay and acting by Iara Rennó, editing and video art by Mary Gathis, art direction by Alma Negrot and featuring Curumin and Ed Trombone, Transflorestar re-examines the world through the forest while introducing dialogue between music, poetry, visual arts and body, proposing the subversion of anthropo-phallo-Eurocentrism and the supremacy of Cartesian thought over sensing. In partnerships with Thalma de Freitas, Ava Rocha, Tetê Espíndola and Alzira E., but also inspired by the stories of Davi Kopenawa and in the speeches of Ailton Krenak, in fragments of texts by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and in the echoes of Makunaimã in Macunaíma, the film incorporates the possibility of a “(M)otherworld”, legacy of the Burkinabe philosopher Sobonfu Somé, and Lélia Gonzalez’s perspective on “Amefrica”. All in a mythical and oneiric universe inhabited by Xapiri and Orisá, in which the roots of Yãkõana and Iroko are lay under the Atlantic Ocean.