HUNGU - Inspired by capoeira

http://www.nfb.ca/hungu

The hungu is an African musical instrument, ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau. Its origins are carried on in an ancient tradition. Inspired by the grace and raw beauty of African rock paintings, Nicolas Brault applies his narrative gifts to a world where humans and nature are subtly linked.

Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his kin. Death is prowling, but a mother's soul resurrected by music will return strength and life to the child when he becomes a man.

The filmmaker combines 2D animation on a graphics tablet with the warmth of sand animation, thus uniting modernity and tradition, Brazil and Africa, music and memory. Sparse in design and humanist in its outlook, Hungu exudes the elegance and suggestive power of a timeless story.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Capoeira
• Nicolas
• Brault
• berimbau
• Hungu

[Ojokernegro]

remain stupid and uneducated.

[Ojokernegro]

Exactly, it's amazing how many people don't know that.

[YoMecanica]

Capoeira ANGOLA!!!! milagro! Muy bueno!

[YoMecanica]

And "tzz tzz"

[gerilobrasil]

a dorei ver q eziste a inda mestris de capoira q respeita uma tradisao nossa e da africa esse e ou brasil no mundo entero

[Varggorm]

to make a high note, you strike the wire above the rock and press the rock to the wire. to make a low note, you strike below the rock without the rock touching the wire. And theres also a "buzz note" with the rock loosely touching the wire and the gourd against the player's body

[chross1984]

actually three and various ways to play them. so actual more like 6.

[irishbboy]

haha!

[alanqning]

I hear a third note too :)

It also seems like if he could move his hand higher/lower on the "bow" it would make different pitches also

[BerimbauSenzala]

if you listen betr you will see there is 3 notes not 2 =)