Heinz Förthmann (1915-1978) was one of the most talented film-makers in the history of Brazilian ethnographic film. But the films that he made at the height of his powers, in the 1950s, now exist only in degraded or fragmentary form, or have been lost entirely, and for this reason, he has not received the recognition that he deserves. Following a review of Förthmann’s career, and on the basis of an incomplete r...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-28T04:04:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-01-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Leverhulme Trust; Although rarely mentioned in English-language texts, Rituais de Festas Bororo has long been acknowledged as a masterpiece of early ethnographic film in t...