Amazonia Future Lab
About the film:
This documentary film is connected to the Amazonia Future Lab project, an interdisciplinary research initiative exploring new ways of engaging with indigenous knowledge, museum archives, and digital storytelling. The film follows indigenous protagonists and researchers as they work within the archives of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, reflecting on historical collections and their contemporary meanings.
I carried out the audiovisual documentation of the project, accompanying the participants throughout the research process inside the museum archive. During the final phase of the project, I produced interviews and a photo reportage, capturing both the collaborative research and the personal perspectives of those involved.
The film is accessible only upon password request for privacy reasons related to its final presentation as part of a museum installation.
About the project:
Departing from historical-ethnographic and botanical collections from and about the Brazilian Amazon region, the Amazonia Future Lab shifts the focus from the discrete artefact to the relational context of its manufacturing process, its usage or its significance within traditional rituals. The aim of the project is to develop a framework that allows the contextualisation of data in a graph with meaningful relations and to render these relations navigable and narratable. As an intercultural and interdisciplinary team of designers, ethnologists, curators, botanists, and indigenous researchers, we further aim to support and adequately represent multiple knowledge systems.
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Photographs ©Costanza Parigi