AntropoCena presents: Drags in da house - Screening of the film and conversation with directors

We invite you to the AntropoCena session about the film “Drags in da House” directed by Paula Bessa Braz, Mihai Andrei Leaha, Caio Rincon, Gab Italiani and Dida Silva. The screening will feature Paula and Mihai for a chat, mediated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. Synopsis: When two anthropologists and three drag queens meet in a drag race competition in São Paulo, an ambitious project is born to document the city's vibrant queer scene. But the arrival of the pandemic radically transforms this creative journey. What would be a conventional documentary becomes something deeper: an experimental collaboration in which the boundaries between observers and observed dissolve. Through video diaries, digital performances, and virtual encounters, the group captures not just a cultural scene, but a historical moment of adaptation, resistance, and creation. Paula Bessa Braz is an anthropologist, audiovisual director, and researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP), where she is conducting her doctoral research in Social Anthropology. She has contributed to the production of several ethnographic films and series, directed, and authored the film "Canto de Família" (2020), which received awards from the Brazilian Anthropological Association and Inedit-Brasil. Mihai Andrei Leaha is an audiovisual researcher, anthropologist, filmmaker and educator. He has worked curating, promoting and programming ethnographic films at various conferences and festivals. He directed ethnographic films awarded by the Brazilian Anthropology Association, such as Carlos Caps Drag Race and Canto de Família. He is Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Tromsø in Norway and chairs the IUAES Visual Anthropology Commission. AntropoCena is a LISA initiative and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by USP researchers, through exhibitions and debates.

The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, no 181, favo/room 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
Free admission, subject to space limitation
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