Paper short abstract:

This presentation is based on a research project, the final product of which is the book: Tirando el Corte: Cine Comunitario y Antropología Audiovisual.The results will be presented from a child and youth perspective on the representation of territories through the creation of participatory films.

Paper long abstract:

This presentation is based on a research project, the final product of which is the book: "Tirando el Corte: Cine Comunitario y Antropología Audiovisual", financed by the Ministry of Cultures and Arts of Chile.The results will be presented from a child and youth perspective on the representation of territories through the creation of participatory films.

Community cinema is proposed as an object of study for audiovisual anthropology, both because of the participatory methodologies it includes and because of the films it produces, which express alterities that have had limited access to self-representation.

Among its methodologies, Community Cinema proposes a horizontal perspective, where facilitators and participants share knowledge for an audiovisual production. No role is more relevant than another, promoting integrality and the value of collaboration. As a collective practice, this type of cinema strengthens community ties and regenerates the social fabric (Zirión, 2015),promoting productions that make Chile's problems visible.

From its languages, Community Cinema emerges as a device to promote critical reflections on what affects the people who inhabit the territories, thus the approach of Common Concerns (Xiang, 2022) acquires strength and value, since through the creation of participatory audiovisual pieces, concerns that are multiplied and repeated throughout the territory are filmed. This disposition allows analyzing Community Cinema as a discursive proposal that politically represents marginalized, underrepresented or ignored collectivities (Gumucio Dragón, 2014).

The hypothesis is that Community Cinema fosters reflexivity among the participating communities, since it promotes communicative processes that include the perspectives of those who live these realities.