“Nhe’erŷ"

Guarani cosmo-perceptions in “Selvagem” films

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2238-8915.144374

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In a transmedia manner, the Selvagem project, produced, directed, and co-founded respectively by Anna Dantes, Madeleeine Deschamps, and Ailton Krenak, creates an online and interconnected space that offers knowledge about the indigenous cosmovisions. Through the YouTube channel “Selvagem: ciclo de estudos sobre a vida” (Selvagem: cycle of studies on life), this work aims to present two film series. The first is Nhe’erŷ, translated as the place “where spirits bathe,” one of the short film series produced by the indigenous filmmakers Carlos Papá and Cristine Takuá,  which they share and delicately and poetically bring us closer to the wonders of the Atlantic Forest (to them, Nhe’erŷ) and the cosmo-perceptions of the Guarani language. The videos from the series “Ayvu Pará,” translated as “drawings of speech,” like the ones from the “Nhe’erŷ” series, are akin to small lessons that concentrate on the deep meanings of the nhe’ë, the “soul-words,” or the ‘speech,’ ayvu, imbued with love. The lesson-films bring us closer to the cosmos-perceptions of the Guarani through their indigenous language, which reveals its beauty in the relationships between humans and non-humans, as a cosmo-poetics (CESARINO, 2012), capable of creating decolonizing images (CUSICANQUI, 2010). This study revealed that the videos, as a political-social resource, unveil one of the communication cosmo-practices of the Guarani (OLIVEIRA, 2020), showing that they not only invent new parameters of translation between worlds but also generate a counter-colonizing cosmo-poetic resistance.

KEYWORDS: Guarani language; Nhe’erŷ; Selvagem; Guarani films; Carlos Papá.

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Paloma de Melo Henrique, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Paloma de Melo Henrique

Doutoranda em Literatura pela UFRGS

Bolsista CAPES

Alisson Preto Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Alisson Preto Souza
alissonsouzaprof@gmail.com
Doutor em Letras pela UFRGS

Published

2025-04-10

How to Cite

DE MELO HENRIQUE, P.; PRETO SOUZA, A. “Nhe’erŷ": Guarani cosmo-perceptions in “Selvagem” films. Organon, Porto Alegre, v. 40, n. 79, 2025. DOI: 10.22456/2238-8915.144374. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/organon/article/view/144374. Acesso em: 28 apr. 2025.