Full HD Video with sound, two chapters of a 4-Channel Video installation, 62′ Portuguese, English, with Spanish subtitles

The largest tower in Latin America, the Amazon High Towers Observatory (ATTO) aims to study the interactions between the forest, soils and atmosphere of the region to understand the role of the Amazon basin for the earth system. The tower is part of an international cooperation between Brazil and Germany, built and financed by INPA – Amazon Research Institute and the Max Planck Institute. For the project “CINE-LIANA at the ATTO Tower: Two Chapters”, the tower was temporarily occupied and transformed into a community radio station. The dialogue between scientists and local residents addresses central questions of the debates surrounding the current environmental crisis: How does the related public debate unfold, what perspectives are represented and where do the different discourses enter into dialogue? In the process, scientific evidence and ancestral knowledge sometimes intersect, sometimes disconnect, as the scientific community listens and also learns more about the struggles in defence of the territories and local livelihoods of Amazonian populations, demystifying universalising assumptions.