Vincent Carelli's video works represent an innovative collaborative project of the Center for Work with Indigenous People in Brazil. In Carelli's unique trilogy, which advances a brand of sumptuous and dramatic ethnography, we witness Amazonian peoples confronting their own ethnicity through video's alluring ability to represent it. Indigenous Brazilians have invested this visual technology with the properties of a tool, a weapon and a mask. In The Spirit of TV (1990, 18 mins), the Wai?i determine that vido can host the memories of ancestors and serve as a reservoir for community history. This same medium, however, can also be harmful because auxiliary spirits reside within the TV screen. A wondrous cultural exchange occurs in Meeting Ancestors (1993, 22 mins) when Chief Wai-Wai of the Wai?i views footage of the Zo'? a tribe sharing a similar language, and then crosses the "Big River" for a visit. We Gather As a Family (1993, 32 mins) finds the chief of the Parakat?j? musing over the erosion of cultural interity and, through an exchange with the more traditional Krahcoming inspired to reinvigorate tribal rites.-Steve Seid