Four Winds Productions presents Native Resistance: Ayvú Anhenteguá. The documentary medium brings views of Guarani culture to nature, mentality and attitude.
The team immerses themselves in the universe of the Guarani people, allowing them to be directed by them. This fact is reflected in the rhythm of the work and the title itself, chosen by the interviewees, which means “strong subject” or “true subject”. The documentary has testimonies from ten people and moves between subjects such as rap, literature, education and spirituality. In addition to having a music video for Brazil’s first indigenous cypher, performed by Matte Records with Brô Mc’s, Kunumi Mc and OZ Guarani.Provocative, but relaxed, “Native Resistance: Ayvú Anhenteguá” brings out issues of utmost importance to society.
Nhandesy brings an intimate narrative with the original ancestry and its way of seeing and feeling “our mother, our land”, and at the same time warns of how humanity has dealt with it. The doc has as its conductor the song Mamo oyme ndory, Tekoha pyma oyme (Where is her joy she is in tekoha).
Randa Kunã Poty Rory, a young man of the Guarani-Kaiowá people, is the name Ana Lúcia or Anarandá Guarani, as she is known, and means “bright flower woman, charismatic and communicator”. The young artist, an environmental management student at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), says that she decided to be a singer to transmit to the world the culture and reality of her people through music.
Visual artists VJ Suave and musician Nelson D join in this collaboration that mixes sound and visual elements of the Brazilian indigenous ancestry with the psychedely and fruitfulness of electronic technology. Snuff (“path” in Nheengatu language) is an audiovisual path where Nelson D’s music is reflected in a magical and frantic sequence of VJ’s duos. Through animations and video captures, the group of artists move around two arguments: the indigenous identity in our time and the important entity of nature and land. What does it mean to be indigenous in our contemporary times? How is indigenous plurality expressed in our society when most of the time the latter makes it invisible?
How is the indigenous experience expressed through different non-original technologies? These guidelines are intervals in the course of the show with the important presence of nature, interpreted as a generator of animal and plant life, a spreader of fauna and flora with which humans have not yet realized a respectful and prosperous symbiosis.
Luminescent tropical flowers, endeared jaguars, psychedelic insects and many more elements become the objects by creating scenes and visual patterns, accompanying the sound path created by Nelson’s songs, which exploring different BPM, creates an epic and at the same time dancing soundtrack. A futuristic indigenous experience that does not fail to shout an urgent social and environmental message.
Native resistance has already been born great: it is the first indigenous cypher produced in Brazil — with Portuguese and Guarani verses. The union of rapper Kunumi MC with the groups Oz Guarani and Brô MC’s, a pioneer of the genre in the country, generated powerful music, which at the same time denounces the extermination of native peoples and natural resources, offers a connection with the listener — the sense of belonging is inevitable. The track was produced by Vinícius Flausino (Healing Fox), author of the beat and the mix.
The native Resistance clip, directed by audiovisual producer Leo Solda, opens with writer Olívio Jekupé, father of Kunumi MC, exalting the message passed during the cypher. “Rap written with native thinking, which portrays a reality, not a fiction, but a tradition lived from heart that will tell us in this song”, says the poet, who lives in the village Krukutu, in Parelheiros (SP). It’s seven minutes of strong verses and different approaches, from trap to speed flow. The filming, also taken in Jaraguá (SP) and Dourados (MS), the land of the groups Oz Guarani and Brô MC’s, respectively, enrich the singers’ discourse.
The indigenous struggle continues throughout the ancestral territory, and we young people are the protagonists of this mission inherited by our elders and ancestors, putting into practice what we learn in our indigenous villages and experiences for the sake of indigenous peoples, the forest and our rights as originated in Pachamama. Contemporary Indigenous Music comes with everything to strengthen, and here welcomes you in the immersion of our indigenous music. Demarcation of stages and lands already.
Many indigenous youth have embarked on rap to claim their rights to the land and to their ways of existing and to see the world. The confrontational speech to take possession of the country’s political scene in the fight for their rights as “indigenous” and also a way of talking about their spiritual practices interspersed with sacred songs (mborai).