Mariana Lacerda Goncalves
Fellow
Mariana Lacerda, born in Recife, northeast Brazil, lives and works in São Paulo. She has a degree in journalism and a master's degree in History of Science from PUC/SP. Audiovisual artist, she invites the participation of others, both in the development and formalization of ideas. In recent years, she has dedicated her films to themes such as memory, the environment, the rights of nature, indigenous rights and Amerindian perspectivism. She is a fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) scholarship program since November 2023, for the development of a film script entitled "Aña, constellation of Jararaca". The script is being developed with indigenous peoples of the Tiquié River, in the Rio Negro basin, in the Amazon, about how they relate and monitor events occurring in their territories with the appearance of constellations in the sky.
- 2024 - Fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability - _Helmholtz Center Potsdam (RIFS).
- 2023 - Script and direction of the film Mapear Mundos (Mapping Worlds, documentary, 72'), made with the Instituto Socioambiental (Brazil).
- 2023 - Author, with Rivane Neuenschwander, of the book Reviravolta de Gaia (Cobogó and n-1 editions).
- 2023 - Script and direction of the film Eu sou uma arara ("I'm a macaw", documentaru, 28'), with Rivane Neuenschwander. Film made with the support of the Serralves Foundation (Porto, Portugal).
- 2021 - Film O Sopro dos Xapiri (The Breath of the Xapiri, documentary 8'), with Isabella Guimarães and Gisela Motta; Film made with the support of the Instituto Socioambiental.
- 2021 - Organizer of the book A Whale on the Mountain (n-1 editions), with Peter Pál Pelbart.
- 2020 - In 2020, projections were made at the Brazilian National Congress of animated Yanomami drawings and Yanomami phrases. The gesture marked the delivery to the National Congress of the petition with around 500,000 signatures calling for the immediate removal of the miners from the Yanomami Indigenous Land. The screenings, an initiative of the Socioambiental Institute, led to the short film O Sopro dos Xapiri, directed with Isabella Guimarães, Gisela Motta, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Joseca Yanomami. O Sopro dos Xapiri (The Breath of the Xapiri) (8') was shown during the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), held in 2021 in the city of Glasgow, Great Britain, and exhibited at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MASP/SP) in the same year.
- 2020 - Commercial screening of Gyuri (documentary, 87') film that was shot in the Yanomami village of Demini, the house of the shaman Davi Kopenawa. The film was made in collaboration with photographer Claudia Andujar and Peter Pál Pelbart and narrates Claudia's story of escaping Nazism in Hungary and finding refuge in Yanomami villages in the Amazon. After she lost her family to the Nazis, she joined forces with the Yanomami and Davi Kopenawa to defend the land. The film Gyuri is part of the exhibition Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami Struggle, which has already toured France (Paris; Fondation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain), Italy (Milan, Triennale Milano), England (London, Barbican Centre), Spain (Barcelona, Fundación Mapfre) and Switzerland (Zurick Museum Winterthur). In 2023, the exhibition in which the film takes part opened in the United States (New York, The Shed) and Mexico City (Mexico City, MUAC/UFAM; and Puebla, Museo Amparo).
- 2020 - Direction of the film O nosso amor vai embora (Our love is leaving, documentary, 13'), with Claudia Priscilla, screened at the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.
- 2015 - Film Baleia Magic Park (Whale Magic Park, documentary, 13') , screened at the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.
- 2012 - Film A Vida Noturna das Igrejas de Olinda (The Nightlife of Olinda's Churches,documentar, 19') screened at the São Paulo International Short Film Festival; Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife.
- 2009 - Film Menino-aranha (Spider-boy; documentary, 13') short documentary film screened at more than 30 festivals in Brazil and around the world, including Fid Marseille and Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films.
- Indigenous perspectivism
- Climate change
- Indigenous rights
- Rights of nature
- Forest
- Amazonia
- Modes of existence
- Animism
- Audiovisual narratives
- Arts narratives
- Coexistence of worlds
- Antropocene
- Best Screenplay (Gyuri) at the Janela International Film Festival (Recife/Brazil),2018.
- Artist selected by the program Rumos Itaú Cultural (São Paulo/Brazil), 2017.
- Best Newcomer Director, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, 2009.