Pïrinop, My First Contact
2007, 83:00 minutes, colour, Ikpeng and Portuguese with English subtitles
TAPECODE 262.35
Directed by Mari Corrêa and Karané Ikpeng
In 1964, the Ikpeng Indians meet the white people for the first time in a region near the Xingu River, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Occupied by ‘garimpeiros’— nomadic gold prospectors who roam the vast backwoods –, they were threatened in their own territory soon to be transferred to Xingu Indigenous Park, where they still live. But the Ikpeng suffer as a result of the exile from their ancestral lands and today they fight to reclaim their land and their rights.
Joining past and present, in a tone that blends sadness and humor, the Ikpeng evoke the precious memories of those moments and interpret the episodes the white men and their cameras did not witness. Told from the point of view of the Indians themselves, this documentary redirects our gaze and offers a new perspective where roles are inverted and we become the Other.
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