Pedra Sozinha Não Sustém Panela

Pedra Sozinha Não Sustém Panela is one of the short films that make up the series "Presente Angolano: tempo mumuíla", filmed by Ruy Duarte Carvalho in 1979. A portrait of the Mumuíla people in southern Angola, the series is also an attempt to establish their present and a reflection on the fragile balance between humans and their environment, progress and culture. In this film, we follow a confrontation between two visions of the world: that of the elders of Jau and that of the students of the Faculty of Arts in Lubango, in what is considered to be Ruy Duarte Carvalho's most ethnographic cinema.

Duration: 35'
Production year: 1979
Country: AO
Subtitles: No subtitles

Ruy Duarte Carvalho

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was an Angolan poet, novelist, essayist, anthropologist, artist and filmmaker, a citizenship he chose despite being born in Portugal. He trained as an agricultural manager in Santarém and later went to England to study cinema, which led him to work at Televisão Popular de Angola and the Instituto de Cinema de Angola. He also studied anthropology at the École d'Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. As an anthropologist in Angola, he did field research on the Kuvale pastoralists of southern Angola, recording their daily lives with a gaze that went beyond ethnography, through a great poetic sensibility, eminently manifested in his book "Vou lá visitar pastores" (1999). He is the author of the essay on cinema "A câmara, a escrita e a coisa dita..." (1997), in which he rethought the relationship between poetry, cinema and anthropology on the basis of his films Presente angolano: tempo mumuíla (1979) and Nelisita (1982).

Original title: Pedra Sozinha Não Sustém Panela

Ruy Duarte Carvalho

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