Resonances among cinema, chants and bodies in the film The Hyperwomen

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Brazilian documentary The Hyperwomen (2011) to describe the way the ritual chants take part in the setting of the persons filmed, as well as the camera itself. The film approaches the making of Jamugikumalu, the great female ritual at Alto Xingu. The chants, indispensable to the solemn liturgy, come up with the  film as a mover of many registered performances. This text searches on the documented setting for those possible relations existing among the chants’ sonorous-musical form, the bodies of the persons on focus, and the movements of the camera while recording.