Cultural pedagogies in Mbyá-Guarani filmakers

Abstract

The Indigenous cinema has been shaped after a wide set of film narratives coming from different Brazilian Indigenous ethnic groups’ action held by institutions aiming at authorial audiovisual production. Many of these productions were rewarded and exhibited abroad sometimes in debates with the very filmmakers and directors. Considering that the Indigenous cinema fosters singular aesthetics, marked by typical Indigenous ways of thinking and narrating, this work has focussed on cinema narratives by Mbyá-Guarani members in the project called Vídeo nas Aldeias (something like ‘Video in Indigenous Villages’). The objective is to analyse meanings of territoriality in ‘Desterro Guarani’ and ‘Tava, a casa de pedra’ by Mbyá-Guarani filmmakers Patrícia Ferreira (Keretxu) and Ariel Duarte.