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says this: the shaman is the shaman, he is about – and it wasn›t spiritual force, it was it’s a very tough, very difficult fight. And
a spiritual warrior, he even lives at war with biological warfare. And then they start to I, as an artist, am in my trench, with my
the shaman from the neighboring place. If join in and make agreements and fight wars machine gun, which is a movie camera,
a storm hits and knocks it down, if the wind on the side of the Portuguese. reporting all of this, bringing awareness.
rips the hut from a village, they think it was This is what I saw among the Paiter Suruí This is how resistance is done.
the shaman from another enemy village who (an indigenous group that lives in the states Finally, in the other film I made, A Story
sent that wind and knocked it down here, of Rondônia and Mato Grosso). A German of Love and Fury (2013), a cartoon that won
therefore, it’s a sign that their shaman is spectator, at the Berlin Festival session in the Anecy Festival, the most important
weak. Then, they either changed shamans which the film ex-shaman won the Special in the world, I address the vision of a
or even killed a shaman, sometimes. “Wow, Jury Prize there (in 2018), in a session for 16th century Tupinambá warrior who is
you don’t protect us.” There was a spiritual 800 people, asked Cabena, my character: turned immortal by the shaman. This is
war and the environmental tragedies, the “Why, if she was cured By the shaman, did the story of the film, which goes through
climate tragedies, everything was largely you go back to the evangelical church?” And four, five centuries of Brazilian history, until
attributed to the strength or weakness she replied: “Because I’m afraid of going it reaches the year 2096. The problem in
of their shaman. So, when the Jesuits to hell.” What the Jesuit and Capuchin 2096 is that the most expensive commodity
arrived saying “you are being punished evangelizers told the original peoples was is water, and the president of the republic
by my God because you don’t follow Jesus”, that they were dying from Covids because is Pastor Armando. So, there you see my
they believed and migrated to Catholicism. they did not accept Jesus, so they had to prospective diagnostic reading, of trying to
That is until today. come to Jesus› side and when they came to interpret what has been happening, leads
My film ex-shaman is a heated comment Jesus› side it was: “Destroy your shaman! to this dystopia of 2096, projecting that we
made while this process of destruction Because he is the devil.” are going to have a war over water, that
of the shaman is taking place, he is being At the time that Cadena was bitten by a outsourced privatized militias will provide
humiliated, being deprived of his place of snake, while she was on the verge of death security and kill children who steal water
power and strength, being treated like a in the hospital, and the doctors were not of water pipes.
demon. And how the prayers, the songs, the paying attention, the evangelized people The President of the Republic is an
magic flutes, which until yesterday were the called the shaman Perpera, he went there, evangelical pastor. Why do we arrive at
cure, were the transcendence of the Paiter prayed and saved her. And she says that she this prognosis? Because we are living in

Suruí people, were becoming something of was already going to the area of the dead, Brazil a project and a process that goes
the Devil, and this in the mouth of a pastor she was already seeing her father-in-law back to the Jesuits, through the arrival of
who arrived there with all this narrative, dead, her relatives dead, she was already neo-Pentecostals, which has to do with
with medicines, the thing that took down arriving at the village of the dead. She that book A Ética Protestante o Espírito do
the shaman Perpera. Contact between said that she then heard Perpera singing Capitalismo , by Max Weber, in which he
the Paiter Suruí only occurred in the 1960s, when she was dying in the hospital and explains how the ethics of the Protestant
and contact brought diseases. There were Perpétua’s singing made her father-in-law religion served to strengthen American
more or less 800 Paiter Suruí when contact who was receiving her in the village of the capitalism, and the arrival of American
was made in 1969. By 1972, more than 400 Dead turn to her and say: “No Cadena, you capitalism as hegemonic, how much this is
had died of flu, measles, chickenpox, the go back there because you There are a lot of due to the triumph of the Protestant ethics.
same thing as in the 16th century. And then my grandchildren who still need you, so you And, after the United States, the
the evangelizer arrives, the one who is in won’t come for the Day of the Dead. Come philosophy of prosperity, of controlling
the film, at the end of the 1970s, bringing back”. And the way back was following pleasures, of saving, of saving money
cures with medicine, antibiotics, aspirin, Perpera’s song. So, when it comes time to almost as a way to buy your place in heaven,
saying that the shaman is a demon. This see, the shamans decide. It is the shamans spread. How this idea served American
German shepherd (who is not the dog, he who will save Brazil from the apocalypse capitalism and how it was played out here
is the shepherd), he came from Germany, that is coming. The future is ancestral or in our America. In this process, Catholic
he took a group of evangelized indigenous there will be no future. When I made The Liberation Theology, which had a vision of
people and went from house to house Last Forest (2021 documentary), which economic and social inequality, a vision of
burning their hammocks, saying “those is also a film about this, it was to follow violence, of the colonial process, and this
who are Christians sleep in beds, in beds a great, very strong shaman, who is Davi even led the left to come to power. But
horizontal”, and burned the networks. Kopenawa, a great shaman. then there is a huge mistake from the left.
Until then, they had a Paiter Suruí place Kopenawa is at the epicenter of the Perhaps the left’s biggest mistake in the
of prayer, which was a stick with a feather resistance, he did not accept the evangelical history of the New World is that it came to
that was not blessed, but they kept it church. He was evangelized. His name, power and forgot this extremely important
at home as a spiritual center; was also David, was given by a white pastor. He was connection, which was Liberation Theology,
burned. So this process that I describe in almost on the verge of becoming a pastor, letting it be replaced by the Prosperity
the ex-shaman has a certain subtlety, it is and then he had the insight that it was a Theology of the neo-Pentecostals, who
the tip of an iceberg of extreme violence monstrosity. He carried out a confrontation, come with another narrative that it serves
that is at the origin of the entire colonial expelled the evangelicals from his area, the right and now we are seeing the extreme
process and the success of the European from his village, he does not accept this right has learned to deal with this. There is
violent conquest. Because in local wars, and carries out a struggle of resistance a project linked to segments of extremely
the indigenous people, in the first 30 that has no longer become a resistance conservative thought, which is the fastest
years, won all the battles; They started of his own; This shaman’s resistance is a growing on the planet, this ideology and
to lose when Covid took hold and they resistance of the forest. He is saving the this ultra conservative worldview that has to
became extremely fragile, and then they rivers from mercury. He is saving Brazil do with a homo sapiens crisis. A resource
started to migrate towards the invader›s from the apocalypse. This is the shaman’s crisis that homo sapiens is facing right now,
religiosity, understanding that that invader place. This fight is not over, they have not something he has never seen until now.
had a spiritual force that they didn›t know been destroyed, they are the winners. But Man has always found resources in nature

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