Vincent Carelli's "Vídeo nas Aldeias" ("Video in the Villages") shows the imporatance of Brazilian native tribes to preserve their costumes, culture and
transition with the use of video cameras, filming their daily events to create a more sustainable register of their activities which can be viewed by other
generations. Through the efforts of folks who work for their preservations, here we have a native tribes that barely had any contact with the outside world, they
lived secluded from society but in time they began to recollect experiences that seemed to be lost or not done much at the time so they remade and reacted rituals,
fighting and dancing, and even developed with the preservation group meetings with local and nation politicians to created better life conditions in their
comnmunities and to preserve their way of life.
It was a very positive and interesting experience to see indians making their own films, showing their long traditions that could be lost over the decades
had a special group finally found them and brought them to a wider life experience where they could learn about new tecnoligies while showing their old tradition.
Those who support the cause of native tribes and their work to protect the forest where they live will like this a lot. I was brought here because of another
project made by Carelli, which revolved about the conflicts between farmers and natives and which includes a segment about "The Man of the Hole", the last member
of his tribe and whom sadly died this year aged 60 (apparently natural causes, no violence was done). Just hearing this news I was saddened that he lived for 30
years in complete solitude way deep in the forest. I still need to see that other documentary. As for this one, I liked it very much and learned plenty with it. 9/10.