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NHAMANDU MIRIM
NHE’E PORA’I OVY’A AGUE



Pequeno Sol / Little Sun

Grupo Teko Guarani are a musical group dedicated to the preservation of traditional Guarani music, a song form which spans the South American continent and crosses between the sacred and profane with a particular focus on the sacred vocal quality of children.

NHAMANDU MIRIM is a short film work, E.P. record, and performance made within the resaerch project Fugitive Tone.

Film 12:50
Cinematic Release: TBD
4:3 UHD 4K Stereo Audio
Year: 2025
Spoken: Guarani, Portugese

with
Grupo Teko Guarani
Lucas S. Icò

Musicians
Bruna Fernandes
Diogo Martins
Jera Mirim
João Benites
Luciano Fernandes
Sergio Morinico

Camera
Vicente Carcuchinski
Sol Archer

Audio Capture
Marina Brillman Tabajara
Juan Quintáns

Audio Treatment
Daniel Nunes

In collaboration with Sergio Morinico - director of Grupo Teko Guarani and Lucas S. Ico, the video charts a performative staging of Guarani presence in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The group, based in an Aldeia - an indigenous community on the outskirts of the city, together planned a route to walk from a site of historical Guarani resistance - the home of a significant spiritual leader in the communities history - originally at the gate of the old city, to the cathedral, which was built with forced Guarani labor, and which is supported below ground level on a row of giant Guarani stone heads, on rough rendered stone - separated from the formally dressed stone of the Cathedral and its representations of europeanised saints.

The city bears vanishingly few traces of the Guarani presence or struggle, other than those, such as these which place them firmly in a racialised representational hierarchy and in states of rough nature.