The Body Won’t Close.
Our bodies are semi-permeable. All over the world, stories are being told about heroes who magically “close” their bodies, so as to become invincible. This film follows one such story, as it is told in Santo Amaro, Bahia (Brazil). Besouro Mangangà was a capoeira player, a black hero, who had closed his body. No bullets, no knives or daggers could pierce his skin. Bahian men explain how “closing the body” makes sense in their precarious and violent world, and why, in the end, this closure can never be accomplished. Soon the filmmaker realizes that his film is not only about the people in Bahia. He too is struggling with the porosity of his body, endlessly trying to strike a balance between shutting the world out and letting the world in.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2020. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Language Note: | In English,Portoguese |
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Subject: | Anthropology. Latin America. Documentary films. Foreign study. Social sciences. |
Genre: | Documentary films. |
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