DAY 1
How can we connect internally and externally with the natural environment from our homes?
Venuz White
Director & Editor: Sara García - Creative Director: Venuz White - Sound production: Manuel Suarez
Voice: Fotoula Adrimi & Liz Mahon
Water Revelation:
Brazil
Venuz White finds inspiration in ancestral practices and technologies to visually present the "Voices of Water” manifested through colour pigments, water and voice vibrations. As a result of a digital artist-in-residence programme at ÚNA, the Colombian artist will unveil for the first time ever her "Water Revelations", a series of contemporary rituals bringing together five female voices from Brazil, Scotland, Chile, Mexico and Argentina.
This is the Water Revelation from Brazil, represented by Hannah, Simony and Ivani from the Pataxó Indigenous peoples in Porto do Boi, Bahía.
The Pataxó Ritual
The name Pataxó comes from the sound of waves hitting rocks and going back to the sea.
The Porto do Boi community belongs to the Indigenous Pataxó in South Bahia, currently living inside their protected land in different communities. Porto do Boi consists of a close family circle, rooted around community living, harmony with nature and spirituality.
This is the Awê ritual of the Pataxó, welcoming the rain season, recorded specially for ÚNA Fest.
Awê for them means love, union and spirituality.
Special thanks to De Volta ao Porto do Boi
Minük
A universal transmission of union and peace, a solar expression of joy. Star code melodies and compelling chants coexist in an updated refined synergy: the merging of two remarkable artists whose radiant love and music bring the world a bit closer. Minük is characterized by weaving voices and strings in a swirling harmonious tapestry rooted in South American and African percussion. Almunis and Marcus take turns leading and supporting each other, seamlessly flowing between English and Spanish songs.
Rodrigo Nava Ramirez
To experience Rodrigo’s immersive AI piece,
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Chloe Steele
Born and bred on the Isle of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Chloe had an upbringing rooted in her community’s cultural heritage and traditions. For the past five years she has been actively working to safeguard the customs and traditions of the island through music and other community projects in order to establish connections with young and old generations alike.
Gregorio Carnevale
Gregorio is a musician and producer based in Rio de Janeiro, with a formal education in piano and drums, specialising in Brazilian popular rhythms and genres. He produces a mixture of unusual sounds seeking a hybrid between organic and digital tunes, making this interplay an essential part of his musical identity. Collaborating with several artists from various niches, he creates networks that transcend genres and spaces.
Time and the Seashell
(Kii Nche Ndutsa)
Film curation: Native Spirit Foundation
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A young Indigenous boy imagines his future while listening to the sounds of a seashell, while an Indigenous man recalls his past listening to the same shell. The man remembers listening to birds and looking at fireflies in his childhood, but these are no longer there. The short film invites an audience to consider past, present and future of a changing landscape and vanishing biodiversity.
Director Statement
In Mesoamerica the seashell is a symbol for time. This short film invites us to reflect on past, present and future in a changing landscape where the natural environment is slowly disappearing.
- Itandehui Jansen
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