Abstract

What historical world is (re)elaborated by the indigenous cinematography in opposition to the visual regimes that constitute the coloniality of the gaze toward the First Nations Peoples of Abya Yala? The article analyzes the imagistic (de)construction of the Other, starting from post-colonial, anthropological, and film studies perspectives. It focuses on the visual forms of the cinematographic, photographic and iconography, as construed by the cinema of First Nations Peoples, through the process of historical-formal reversal, giving rise to other historical variables. As conclusion, it points out that indigenous cinema presents itself in opposition to the cinematographic, anthropometric perspectives of painting, photography, and ethnographic film, with mechanisms of counter-coloniality. Such a mechanism can be identified in the works of Vincent Carelli, Ana Vaz and Paloma Rocha, and Luis Abramo, Takumã Kuikuro (Upper Xingu), Luis Tróchez Tunubalá (Misak), Francisco Huichaqueo (Mapuche), Álvaro and Diego Sarmiento (Quechua) and the Guajajara Collective (Jocy and Milson).

Keywords
Indigenous cinema; Coloniality of the gaze; First Nations Peoples; Visual regimes; Anthropometric portraits