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ENGLISH VERSION CULTURE WAR

to be able to prey and continue building a film A Story of Love and Fury (2013), Best Maurício Dias – What took us to Atalaia
comfortable way of life. Now, resources Feature Film in Annecy (France); the do Norte was the idea of doing work on
have run out, and man finds himself on the film ex-shaman (2018), honorable mention Jerusalem syndrome. It actually emerged
verge of killing his own sapiens in order to for best documentary at the 2018 Berlin Film in 2013, from the residency invited by
compete for resources. There is already a Festival, Best Photography at the Festival Benjamin Seroussi at the Jerusalem Visual
lack of water and the water will be disputed Présence Autochtone (Canada, 2018) and Arts Center, in Israel.
and man knows that now it is no longer a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International We stayed in Jerusalem for a while.
question of killing Neanderthals, wolves, Film Festival (2018), in addition to Best And what impressed us most there was
panthers, jaguars, wild boars, insects, film at the festival documentary It›s All the “crazy devotion”. I call it crazy because
entire biomes to survive. He will have to True 2018. His most recent work, The Last it is actually this heightened veneration,
kill Sapiens himself. It’s already happening, Forest , about an isolated Yanomami village, exhibited by hundreds of pilgrims
right? This is already happening and within had its world premiere at the Berlin Film every time they encounter the almost
this ideological thinking of the extreme Festival in 2021. mythological references and monuments
right, which has already realized this, it of their religions. This happens among
needs to identify the other and take the front CULTURaL WaR / ReLIgION [pageS 72 TO 77] Jews, Christians and Muslims. In this region
line, arming itself, because the idea will be there is the Al-Aqsa mosque, from where
to eliminate the other. This is the process FILM ADDRESSES THE Muhammad supposedly transformed into
of the extreme right, and in this sense they MADNESS OF THE a winged horse and went to the heavens,
are taking great advantage of this process EVANGELIZATION OF there is the extinct and destroyed Temple of
of winning hearts and minds through Solomon, where Jews pray at the Western
the neo-entecostal church, creating INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN Wall, and all this next to the Holy Sepulcher
the tendency to create a fundamentalist JAVARI , where Jesus is supposedly buried and
state, like Iran. Yes, Brazil is becoming where hundreds of Catholic and evangelical
the Iran if we are not careful, if we do not Avesso do Céu , by the duo Dias & Riedweg, pilgrims make the Via Dolorosa, that
create (containment) devices. If we don’t was filmed in the Javari Reserve, in the far path to the Cross, repeating the stations
think about a large-scale confrontation west of the Amazon, and has as its theme until Calvary. And several believers thus
to maintain the secular state, in 15 or 20 the conversion practiced by dozens of neo- enter a trance, which is called Jerusalem
Pentecostal churches, even with recently
years we will enter a fundamentalist state. contacted indigenous people Syndrome. This is such a recurring thing
See for example the case of the Brazilian that the State of Israel didn’t know what to
Senate. There are evangelical cults inside. bY FabIO CYpRIaNO do, because it disrupted local life, as these
Alright? It might be. But what if he wanted psychotic trances sometimes become
to do some dirty work at a crossroads in the it iS VErY diFFiCult to lEaVE impassive violent. Therefore, they ended up creating
Senate corridors. I could? I don’t think so. after a screening of the film O Avesso do [in 1951] a clinic to treat this, called Kfar
So, we are already in this process. Céu , by the duo Dias & Riedweg, showing at Shaul, built in an old Palestinian village.
It’s not about focusing and saying that Galeria Vermelho until May 11th. It portrays
the evangelical church is an enemy, it’s the violence of religious manipulation in ***
about giving light and visibility to what is the Tikuna indigenous territory, in the Alto This Jerusalem syndrome is something that
happening, the process that is happening Solimões and Javari region, on the border we have been trying to address in our work
and what consequences this will have so of Brazil with Peru and Colombia, in real since 2013. We have been doing a series
that people can make their decisions. scenes, which mix rituals with images of of work with psychiatric patients, and in
choices. An example of a fundamentalist deforestation in the Amazon, making it these works, in these immersions that we
state is Iran, where women have to cover impossible not to notice the intrinsic link do with a group of patients from IpUb, the
their faces, women are hanged if they between the two. Institute of Psychiatry at UFRJ, we often
leave their faces visible, their hair showing. The duo, formed 30 years ago by see the problem of faith, mythology, of
That’s what we’re heading towards. I know, Brazilian Maurício Dias and Swiss Walter the existence of God. This issue is, among
I have friends from my youth in the south Riedweg, is known for working with psychiatric patients, even stronger than in
of Bahia who played ball with me and who specific communities, whether building society in general. So Jerusalem syndrome
today don’t play ball anymore because doormen, police officers, street children became a strong issue in these works and
the church won’t let them. They don’t or inmates of psychiatric clinics, in a rare ended up generating a series of works in the
go to forró anymore because the church example of emotional involvement in the context of psychiatry that we have done in
doesn’t allow women, so no way. A friend panorama of Brazilian art. This new work, recent years: Cocoon , which won the IMS
of mine, a capoeira student who became completed in 2023, however, is built again in Zum grant in 2018, the work that we he did
a capoeira master, who became one of a three-month immersion with two groups: for Casa Daros, in 2015, Nada absolutely
the greatest capoeiristas in the southern indigenous and evangelicals, but in the nada and Nada almost nada , which we
region of Bahia and who stopped capoeira latter without the usual empathy. presented at Verbo, at Vermelho, in 2016,
because the pastor said that capoeira is not Therefore, I decided to send two which is a performance based on texts by
something to do, that it disrespects Jesus. questions to Maurício, who was in São Robert Walser.
And then the Grand Master of capoeira Paulo for the opening, which were answered
from Southern Bahia abandons his art in a series of 13 audios transcribed below. ***
for the sake of the church. This is what is The questions were: what led them to And The Inside Out , this new film, also
happening in Brazil, we are moving towards produce a work in Atalaia do Norte; and appears in this context. It is not a film about
the configuration of a fundamentalist state, how the involvement that you generally indigenous people, nor about evangelicals.
a fundamentalist church. dedicate to your work came about. Read It is a film about madness, about the
*Screenwriter and filmmaker Luiz the answers below: inside out state, the state of being of faith
Bolognesi directed, among other dominated by religion. We understand faith
productions, the animated feature *** as an individual expression of any individual

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