Title & Author:

Film X autochthonous struggles today / edited by Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Paistik, Skaya Siku.

Publication:

London : Sternberg Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Translators ... Ted Fendt ..., Jeremy Harley ..., Eliana Ritts, Skaya Siku, and Marc Allassonnière-Tang ..., Omar Moujane ..., Mohamed Ed-Daoudi ..., Comité Médias et Communication of the Movement on the Road '96 ..., Alo Paistik ..., Catarina von Wedemeyer ..., Roberto Romero ..., Beatriz Rodovalho ..., Nathalie Stahelin ..., Sophie Provost ...."--Page 543.
Includes bibliographical references.
(from table of contents) "What's the point of cinema?" Struggles, conviviality, and the vivacity of images / Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Païstik, and Skaya Siku -- (Part I. Images and sounds in action). The struggle of marginalized peoples is the perfect remedy for an ailing nation. Okinawa, silenced by Japan / Chie Mikami -- Walking the path of resistance with my films on my back / Mayaw Biho -- Aide-Mémoire. Disinterring the colonial past in service of the present, a conversation with John Gianvito and Myrla Baldonado / John Gianvito and Myrla Baldonado in conversation with Ricardo Matos Cabo, Rupert Cox, and Alo Paistik -- 100 Tikis souvenir. O upu ua lele i le matagi e / Dan Taulapapa McMullin -- Karrabing, filmmaking for making the land and its people / Karrabing Film Collective -- Of megaphones, cameras, and songs. The films of Nadir Bouhmouch and the Moroccan Amazigh movement on the road '96 / Nadir Bouhmouch, Omar Moujane, and Marie Pierre-Bouthier in conversation ; edited by Marie Pierre-Bouthier -- Of an attempt to deconstruct landscape to a weaving of teachings / Etienne de France, David Harper, Jamahke Welsh, Jonathan Sims, and Blackhorse Lowe in conversation ; edited by Etienne de France -- "Camera is my machete." Promedios and the construction of Zapatista alternative media / Francisco Vázquez Mota -- Zapatista cinema / Nicolas Défossé -- Intertwining indigenous resistance in Cauca / Ariel Arango Prada and Laura Langa Martínez -- Nũhũ Yãgmũ Yõg Hãm: This land is our land! A travel journal / Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, and Roberto Romero -- (Part II. Reverberations). Returning images: the trajectory of video nas Aldeias and the political role of cinema in the context of cultural resistance / Amaranta Cesar -- On visual sovereignty and the formal exploratons of indigenous futurisms / Sophie Gergaud -- A little matter of feminicide. 'Quiet killing' by Kim O'Bomsawin / Aurélie Journée-Duez -- Media in environmental activism on the borders of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Komi Republic. Fieldwork as video curation / Perrine Poupin -- Back to the people/Restoring history: political cinema and fourth cinema in Aotearoa New Zealand / Mercedes Vicente -- "We serve up your image": Autochthonous détournement in '100 tikis' / Beatriz Rodovalho -- Challenging the line: The forms of John Gianvito's documentary diptych on the American military bases in the Philippines / Caroline San Martin.

Summary:

'Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today' brings together for the first time filmmakers, activists, film curators, and scholars who share a common interest in filmmaking practices that emerge from and participate in the various situations of struggle that the Autochthonous/Indigenous/Native/Aboriginal/First Nations peoples and communities are involved in worldwide. Starting with the Edison Studio's 1894 short films 'Buffalo Dance' and 'Sioux Ghost Dance', representations of Autochthonous peoples have been part of cinema right from its inception. The vast majority of these representations, however, have not been produced by nor for Autochthonous peoples. In the wake of political and cultural self-determination movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and with the gradual democratization and accessibility of the tools of moving-image making, Autochthonous communities have displaced and renewed cinema's forms and means of production, increasingly reclaiming their right for self-representation by way of film and video. Along with the vibrant forms of moving images arising from within the communities, close to their existential political concerns, filmmaking has also become a potent tool in Autochthonous struggles. This book answers the need to take a global look at the diverse ways of filmmaking that fight for land rights and against environmental injustice (Brazil, Morocco, Taiwan, USA), that resist neocolonial domination, economic and political exploitation (Japan, Philippines), that offer a counterpoint during low intensity or drawn-out armed conflicts (Colombia, Mexico), that invent strategies of counter information and representation (Australia, Canada, Russia, Samoa), and that strive for visibility.
"This book is the fruit of numerous exchanges between filmmakers and activists, members of Autochthonous peoples, and accomplices and allies of the majority society. It presents the experiences and filmic forms that emerge from the cross-pollination between the formal experimentations of political cinemas and the visual (and sonic) epistemologies of Autochthonous communities. Autochthonous struggles and the filmic practices to which they give rise have become increasingly fervent and visible. The degradation of living environments--first and foremost those for which Aboriginal, Indigenous, and Native nations and communities have been guarantors and custodians for millennia--is an issue at the forefront of the social and protest movements of our time. The aim of our book is to explore the propensity of these movements to invent filmic forms both unique and diverse."--Printed paper wrapper, page 4.

Resources:
Related Electronic Resource: Publisher's web page for this work, including scanned depiction of table of contents and sample pages (viewed 2024 November 22):

ISBN:

9783956796500 paperback
3956796500 paperback

Subject:

Indigenous films History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Motion pictures Political aspects.
Independent filmmakers.
Motion picture authorship.
Indigenous peoples Land tenure.
Indigenous peoples Civil rights.
Green movement.
Activism.
Minority activists.
Human rights workers.
Government, Resistance to.
Films autochtones Histoire et critique.
Autochtones au cinéma.
Écologisme.
Résistance au gouvernement.
Cinéastes indépendants.
Cinéma Art d'écrire.
Autochtones Terres.
Autochtones Droits.
Activistes issus des minorités.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme.
independent filmmakers.
Performing Arts.

Added entries:

Brenez, Nicole, editor.
Larcher, Jonathan, editor.
Païstik, Alo (Media studies teacher), editor, translator, contributor.
Siku, Skaya (Research fellow), editor, translator.
Baldonado, Myrla, contributor.
Bouhmouch, Nadir, contributor.
Cabo, Ricardo Matos, contributor.
Canguçu, Carolina, contributor.
Cesar, Amaranta, 1975- contributor.
Cox, Rupert A., contributor.
Défossé, Nicolas, contributor.
France, Etienne de (Visual artist), contributor.
Gergaud, Sophie, contributor.
Gianvito, John, contributor.
Harper, David (Documentary filmmaker), contributor.
Journée-Duez, Aurélie, contributor.
Lowe, Larry Blackhorse, contributor.
Martínez, Laura Langa, contributor.
Maxakali, Isael, contributor.
Maxakali, Sueli, contributor.
Mayue Bihou, 1969- contributor.
McMullin, Dan Taulapapa, contributor.
Mikami, Chie, contributor.
Moujane, Omar, contributor, translator.
Pierre-Bouthier, Marie, contributor.
Poupin, Perrine, contributor.
Prada, Ariel Arango, contributor.
Rodovalho, Beatriz, contributor, translator.
Romero, Roberto (Film director), contributor, translator.
San Martin, Caroline, contributor.
Sims, Jonathan (Tribal employee), contributor.
Vázquez Mota, Francisco, contributor.
Vicente, Mercedes, contributor.
Welsh, Jamahke, contributor.
Allassonnière-Tang, Marc, translator.
Ed-Daoudi, Mohamed, translator.
Fendt, Ted, translator.
Harley, Jeremy, translator.
Provost, Sophie, translator.
Ritts, Eliana, translator.
Stahelin, Nathalie, translator.
Wedemeyer, Catarina von (Translator).

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320566
Call No.: 320566
Copy: 1
Status: Available