Tikm'n-Maxakali Cosmocinepolitics: an essay on the invention of a culture and an indigenous cinema (Dossier Intersecting Eyes)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.142390Keywords:
Indigenous Cinema, Cosmopolitics, Ritual, Cosmology, DocumentaryAbstract
Our aim in this work is to explore ways of making cinema and ritual among the Tikmũ’ũn – also known as the Maxakali. We argue that the ‘way’ of filming and making cinema of this indigenous people cannot be understood without comprehending the logic and strategy employed to perform the rituals that, generally speaking, guide the making of the films. At the same time, by recording these rituals, the rituals and the culture of a people are simultaneously recuperated and multiplied. We also suggest that in order to gain a clearer insight into this cinema, it needs to be understood alongside the concepts that inform Maxakali cosmology, without forgetting that the history narrated for the films (and beyond them) is a history of the Maxakali viewpoint concerning pacification and the harmonious coexistence sought with both the ‘spirits’ and the white world. It amounts to a cosmocinepolitics or, put otherwise, a type of film-ritual.
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