Short Abstract:

There is a plurality in indigenous cinema in Abya Yala [indigenous name for Latin America], which stands out for the diversity of themes, ways of seeing, image configurations and cosmogonies that influence film production.

Long Abstract:

This panel flourishes from the growing presence and impact of indigenous cinema as a vital tool of cultural struggle and resistance. Indigenous film production reflects the urgency of postponing the end of the world and preserving the culture of communities. By challenging colonial images and offering new perspectives on indigenous traditions and narratives, indigenous cinema continually transforms itself, questioning fundamental aspects such as authorship, genre, equipment and scripts.

The audiovisual production of indigenous peoples in Abya Yala [indigenous name for Latin America] adopts a cosmogonic approach to image, based on an ancestral technological universe. This panel therefore focuses on cinema as a means of transforming the image that dialogues with the cosmogonies of each indigenous people. By understanding what indigenous cinema is, we can dissolve the boundaries between the individual and the collective, reality and fiction, the human and the non-human, enabling the creation of images that move between the visible and the invisible. In this sense, indigenous cinema flourishes like an enchanted seed, nourishing us and feeding us with the wisdom of all indigenous peoples.

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