A dead doctor's 8mm films expose a genocide nobody wanted to see.
Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce the historic massacre against native communities.
Editing
Juxtaposition of Nutels' clinical eye against his growing horror.
Production
Rescued 8mm footage, painstakingly restored and contextualized.
Director
Tiago Carvalho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nutels coined 'the pink Indian' — indigenous people bleached by disease, stripped of pigment and culture simultaneously. The phrase became a rallying cry.
Brazil's military government actively destroyed indigenous archives; Nutels smuggled his films out in medical supply crates. Carvalho found them in a São Paulo basement in 2015.
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