An expedition to prepare an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest for contact with the “others”. A respectful look at a world threatened by greed and ruthless exploitation. Hidden in the jungle near the border between Brazil, Peru and Colombia, live the Korubo, hitherto almost untouched by “civilization."
A Invenção do Outro
Brazil / 144 min / 2022 / doc
USA Premiere
in Portuguese with English subtitles
Direction: Bruno Jorge
Screenplay: Bruno Jorge
Cinematography: Bruno Jorge
Editing: Bruno Jorge
Producers: Bruno Jorge
What does it mean to invent an other? And who is the other in this scenario? Is it the Korubo? They who have no awareness of cinema, of cameras, of our civilization? Or is it the ones who make the expedition to find them in the jungle? They who are government employees and must leave society behind, go toward an unknown, and witness something no one has ever quite seen before. They seem as distant to us as they are to the Korubo. One definition of cinema could be that it's an encounter with an unknown, or another consciousness. The Invention of the Other dramatizes this encounter as an adventure - dangerous and joyous in equal measure.
