Kynema: estéticas de guerrilhas, poéticas da gambiarra e tecnologias do possível na Amazônia paraense

Abstract

This thesis results from a dialectical investigation situated between art, politics, and community practices in the Amazon region of Pará. Based on more than three decades of work in peripheral, quilombola, riverside, and traditional communities, the research inventories and analyzes the pedagogical-cinematographic thought and practice of the region, articulating experiences, memories, and ancestral knowledge with contemporary critical epistemologies. The study is organized around the conceptual presentation of the triad Guerrilla Aesthetics, Poetics of Improvisation, and Technologies of the Possible, understood as a methodological and aesthetic system that expresses Amazonian modes of creation, resistance, and reinvention. The trajectory, supported by action research and participatory research, mobilizes Philosophy, Semiotics, and Visual Anthropology, articulated with the researcher's experiences in the municipalities of Bragança, Cametá, Tracuateua, Augusto Corrêa, Abaetetuba, and Belém, as well as with the dialogues held in Cape Verde and Portugal. This analysis highlights Amazonian cinema as an aesthetic-political field in which the image is inscribed as body, territory, and memory. The thesis problematizes the absence of consolidated historiography on cinema in the Amazon and proposes the construction of a critical archive based on the practices of the filmmakers and collectives working in the region. It demonstrates how Guerrilla Cinema emerges as a technology of survival, a gesture of re existence, and an affirmation of worlds not captured by colonial logic and cognitive extractivism. Thus, the research offers a conceptual and political contribution by recognizing Amazonian cinema as embodied thought and a practice of resistance.