CUTS, Cortacabezas. Fragmented and visionary conversations about predation and technocapitalism in the Colombian Amazon

Abstract

This article explores the rumor of the cortacabezas from two types of narratives. One, from the construction and circulation of the rumor and how it conveys indigenous perceptions about the danger of the devastation of beings and of worlds. Two, from an analysis of its visuality, the images it produces and from a series of cinematographic bets that translate ethnographic approaches to rumor and that have allowed us to expand debates on cultural extractivism, interventionism and predation in the Amazon in conjunction with collaborators from some indigenous peoples of the region. The repertoires extend poetically in the ways of representing this rumor sensorially. Our cinematic imagination is illuminated by the light of a series of exchanges between cinema, anthropology, science fiction and other operations on the borders of what we declare here as an ethnographic experience from the body and feeling.