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to relate to their condition of existence. If he did this on the Brazilian coast, since the 16th and is considered ready for life as a woman,
is indigenous, faith will be used for hunting century, and were penetrating the country. to be a mother and before she has her first
and fishing. If he is someone from the Faria In each state this had a different name and sexual intercourse, she will go through a
Lima market, he will “take a beating” for activity but a similar method. But, behind ritual in which her hair is pulled from her
risky transactions. Faith is part of life, faith this religious entrance there was always the head. She is given a fermented cassava
is part of the human condition of relating extractive issue. If in Minas it was minerals, drink to numb the pain. Both the oldest and
to the challenge of being alive without in the Amazon it was rubber, and nowadays youngest members of the family will dress
knowing much about life, right? We have it is mainly wood. So, there in Javari, in this painted skin. They are the masked
this difference in relation to other beings. these missionaries come in completely people and they will give her the drink and
We deal with the idea of death the entire financed by explorers who will take Javari’s pull out her hair so that she can be baptized

time we are alive. And I think faith arises things later. There’s coca, there’s wood, that way in adulthood. This ritual was
there. And religion, it will colonize this faith. there’s fish, which is highly appreciated prohibited by churches, already completely
All religions do this. At some point they in haute cuisine, because they are these persecuted by the Catholic church, later by
will colonize this faith to organize the faith giant fish from the Amazon, hunting, in the Church of the Holy Cross and currently
territorially, which is what happens in Israel short, everything that still continues to by evangelicals. These churches will
all the time and what happens now in Javari. fascinate the so-called civilization as restrict the new girl’s ritual, and through
exotic and that is the driving force behind tithing, they manipulate people’s income
*** it. these missionaries there. Missionaries because they take from one person to give
The work never happened in Israel because are actually religious believers, hence the to others, thus controlling and threatening
it was impossible for us to do it there. We identification with far-right governments. the original cultural practices of the tikunas.
don’t speak Hebrew or Arabic. We never But you have missionaries from all over the These rituals are practiced in kitchens and
got any response from the Kfar Shaul clinic, world there ready to get on planes to throw backyards, hidden.
nor any institutional support from there to things, throw mirrors, throw chains and ***
be able to start this work. So we kind of little gifts to seduce indigenous people who We filmed one of the rituals of this
put this work in the fridge. I read an article haven’t even been contacted. We were not family that we were in contact with. And
by Bruno Meyerfeld, who is the French- with these indigenous people, it is obvious then we gave them six cell phones that
Brazilian correspondent for Le Monde in that this contact is harmful, and it was became important camera devices in this
Brazil, in a series of articles the history of never what we wanted. What we wanted work. They filmed other new girl rituals and
the construction of the Transamazônica, was documentation of this encounter, of some of their other parties and then they
which should have reached Atalaia do this obsession of the missionaries to reveal gave us the files. They kept the devices and
Norte, in the extreme west of Brazil, on a little of what is behind this obsession, we received the files, already getting into
the triple border from Peru, Colombia which has a commercial interest behind it. their second question, about added value
and Brazil. But the Transamazônica never or what our relationship with them is like.
got there, there were about 600 km left ***
and they gave up because this region is And then we went boldly and boldly, without ***
completely wild. any contact, other than a telephone call with This material that we received from them
Anderson Rocha, the Secretary of Culture is included in the film in images that appear
*** in the neighboring city, Benjamin Constant, in black and white, or in photographs,
And the last text in this series was which was a pT city, a super interesting with a different pictorial treatment to
focused on Atalaia do Norte, it described local anthropologist who reacted to our differentiate the source of the images that
this promised paradise on Earth, a demands. He put us in contact with some are not images directly filmed by us. It’s
small town of 20 thousand inhabitants, Tikuna indigenous people, completely as if they were quotation marks in a text,
completely disorganized, completely evangelized, but who work in territorial and the quotes from the participants are
Bolsonarian, in which you have more than defense and social reorganization in the at the end of the film.
60 different evangelical churches, all run by region, and also with Tikuna Santo Cruz,
missionaries who try to enter Vale do Javari, who created and runs the Magüta Museum ***
the last stronghold with indigenous people in Benjamin Constant on the tikuna culture. This was super difficult work to research,
not contacted in contemporary times. And he put us in contact with Tikuna finance and, above all, execute. Between
families, with one of whom we spent a lot of the first and third time we were there, the
*** time. We went there three times, each time ambush and murders of Bruno Pereira
And then we realized that we had to move for a month, and stayed with this Tikuna and Dom Phillips took place, and this
this work to deal with the conversion of faith family. The father is the man who appears significantly changed our reception in that
in territory, the conversion of an individual’s throughout the video and who will provide place. When we arrived, people closed the
faith to a religion, to the Amazonian context, a script. In the film, he is the one who cuts doors or said “you have to be very careful
that this issue would materialize there and down a tree, he is the father of the girl who because the other two were killed”. They
in a more contemporary and southern way. is going to have the new girl’s ritual. That’s rightly associated us with that more activist
-American. Most of our work is developed why he’s the one who knocks down that press, with the indigenist and the journalist
within reality or from a Latin American tree and beats the tree to remove the skin. who were murdered. We were touching on a
perspective, so this work in this triple border And he will dry this skin, cut the pieces, to very difficult, very warlike, even dangerous
for us has become a new obsession too, like receive the paintings that will decorate the subject, and our approach was obviously
for the missionaries. This city is a kind of ritual and make the clothing for this ritual subversive. And then I come to your second
springboard for missionaries to enter the for the new girl. question.
Javari Valley, to try to know, find, catalog This is an essential ritual in Tikuna
and convert new cultures. It’s a bit like culture, a ritual that guarantees their ***
the consequence of the myth that always reproduction, that of the clan. It is done How is our relationship with this group?
existed about colonization. White people when the girl has her first menstruation It is not one group, it is two groups:

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