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Aline Motta with Alex Ungprateeb Flynn

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Aline Mota says Brazil has seen a “very violent arena” of narrative disputes, while black artists build more collective ways forward.

The frame is quiet but demanding. Alex Ungberti-Flynn opens from his work across anthropology, curation, activism, and artistic collaboration in Brazil since 2007. Aline Mota comes in through the work itself: loss, erasure, repair, voice, authorship, creativity, inspiration. The conversation takes its time. Diaspora is not treated as a settled label. It needs dialogue, care, and comparison, but the episode is careful about false equivalence. Brazil and the United States remain very different contexts, especially around economic power, institutional access, historical process, and the dominance of English. Iowa becomes one clear point of contact. Frequências, a film event, brings together Brazilian films, Black American films, and work tied to the Caribbean and Haiti. The title carries some weight without getting overplayed. Frequencies means connection across distance. No one pretends the conversation starts from scratch. Mota points back to people who fought and thought before, leaving stones the present can step on. Collective advance still feels possible. American universities come across as flawed but useful places where Brazilian Black artistic practice can meet students, professors, and new scholarship. By the end, authorship and voice have opened into colonial time, repair, and the slow work of talking across histories.

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