Abstract
Ôrí (1989) is documentary film directed by Raquel Gerber and guided by the speech of the black intellectual Maria Beatriz Nascimento. On one level, the work presents the story and thoughts of Beatriz, which are narrated by the author herself (in voice over). On another level, the documentary addresses the actions of political movements and black cultural institutions during the recording period between 1977 and 1988, in which Beatriz herself, as a militant, played an important role. Interconnecting these two plans, the film develops the concept of “quilombo” to narrate the Brazilian racial problem and the forms of resistance and struggle of the black people through institutions such as terreiros, escolas de samba, black soul parties, etc. In this article we intend to understand the thoughts developed by the film about Afro-Brazilian religions, investigating the insertion of such Black African liturgies and cosmologies in a broader aesthetic, ethical and political discourse. Initially, we present the methodology adopted and then we analyze in more detail the film object as an ethnographic and artistic work of multiple meanings.
Keywords:
cinema; anthropology; Ôrí; candomblé
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