Film Screening and Discussion with Prof. Mattijs van de Port (Amsterdam), Tues 10 March @ 3pm

6 Mar 2026

Film Screening and Discussion of Where Can I Get Lost? (Mattijs van de Port, 2024, 70')
Tuesday 10 March 2026, 3.00–5.00 p.m., in the Film & Screen Media Auditorium (Kane Building B10B) 

Where Can I Get Lost? is an essay film by Mattijs van de Port. In Bahia, Brazil, the filmmaker meditates on the many ways one can be lost: in the wilderness and in madness, in the ecstasies of lovemaking, in encounters with the sublime. To lose oneself, he discovers, is a calling for misfits, heretics, and perverts-for those who require a world larger than the one they were given. People not unlike like himself.

Prof Mattijs van de Port is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker at the University of Amsterdam. He published three monographs, including Gypsies, Wars, and Other

Instances of the Wild (1998) and Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real (2011), also directing many ethnographic films, like The Possibility of Spirits (2016) and Knots and Holes: An Essay Film on the Life of Nets (2018), for which he received the prestigious Basil Wright Film Prize at the RAI Filmfestival 2021 in Bristol (UK) and the Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award at the Ethnocineca International Film Festival in Vienna (Austria). 

The event is co-organised by the Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab); the MA Anthropology, Study of Religions Department; and the Department of Film and Screen Media. All welcome.