CONFLUENCES – Emerillon of French Guiana

Description

CONFLUENCES – Emerillon of French Guiana
a film by Perle Møhl
Denmark / France – 2007/2012
78 minutes – colour
documentary

Scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Amerindian Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. Like forceful omens, such representations have had effect in the lives of the people described.

With this film project, the anthropologist invites her Emerillon companions to defy the negative images hitherto made of them and to propose new ones. Several Emerillon take up the challenge, and through their sometimes stumbling, but always resourceful efforts to maintain a life in the forest while profiting from their status as French citizens, they present another version of what being Emerillon is about.

Made as an integrated part of the fieldwork and the investigation of the various definitions of Emerillonhood, CONFLUENCES proposes a sensuous and complementary type of anthropological knowledge about Emerillon being as it is lived and conceived in daily life.

Film: 78 min. English and French subtitles
Filmed by Perle MØHL • Editing: Vincent BLANCHET • Music: COUCHILI
Extra: The director’s point of view – 18 min. (by V. Blanchet)
DVD Video DL • PAL EAN: 0616983845554 Price – DVD: 13€

Published with support from the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Technology (Tips- & Lotto-Midler) and DCCD