FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION

ELEBASH RECITAL HALL, CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2012, 6 PM – 9 PM. FREE.

Morrinho, founded in 1997, is a model made from pieces of bricks, installed in a favela (squatter settlement) in Rio de Janeiro. Over a thousand figurines inhabit this “toy,” avatars in a role-playing game that follows the rules of urban life where “bandits” and “good guys” alternate roles. In 2001, Morrinho was instituted as a cultural project and traveling exhibition. This event presents a series of short films narrated using Morrinho’s diminutive characters, with discussion led by the project’s participants, collaborators and researchers.

PANEL
Project Morrinho: Nelcirlan Oliveira and Raniere Dias (Founders), Chico Serra (Director)

Guest contributors

Jacyln Dubois & Youngwon Kim, Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), The New School; Alessandro Angelini, Ph.D Candidate in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Jilly Traganou, Professor, Parsons The New School for Design; Peter Lucas, Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), The New School

Co-sponsors: The New School, Queens College Latin American and Latino Studies Program, The Consulate General of Brazil in New York