Cinematic crystals in "Rain is Singing in the Village of the Dead", by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora

Abstract

Focusing fundamentally on the film Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos (2018), by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, this article intends to problematize the relations between the regimes of perception of Amerindian ontologies, namely of the Krahô, and the phenomenology of cinema, elaborating for this purpose three primary questions: 1) the relation summoned by the film between animism, shamanism and the cinematographic qualities themselves; 2) the inexistence of a fixed identity (rather multitudes) as a result of a circulating regime of knowledge and the due implications in the (non) representation of a face; 3) approximations between the conceptualization of the crystal in the Deleuzian critique of cinema and in the anthropology of Viveiros de Castro.