O cinema de luta dos Mêbengôkre-Kayapó: as múltiplas dimensões de resistência nos filmes e práticas de produção do Coletivo Beture

Abstract

This research reflects on the cinema produced by Mebêngôkre-Kayapó indigenous filmmakers, focusing on the films and production practices of the Beture Collective, which brings together filmmakers from this ethnic group in the state of Pará, Brazil. The aim is to understand how the cinema of the Beture Mebêngôkre-Kayapó Collective expresses dimensions or meanings of resistance through its works and filmmaking practices, in relation to the socio-political or cultural struggles of the ethnic group. In order to understand how cinema is appropriated and transformed into an ally in these struggles, and in what dimensions this occurs or is expressed, we analyzed the works of the Beture Collective that are representative of their production; we observed and analyzed the group's production practices in an attempt to understand how they relate to the resistance processes of the Mebêngôkre people; what the motivations and objectives of filmmaking are and how the Beture Collective appropriates techniques, technologies and cinematographic or audiovisual language and adapts them to their objectives according to their worldview. This is a qualitative study developed through film analysis and field research with open-ended interviews and observational participation. The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary in that it combines film and image studies with Latin American criticism from the perspective of decolonial studies, as well as concepts related to indigenous studies from anthropology, sociology and geography, which converge with the subject of the research, in order to understand the meanings of resistance that are expressed, constitute or cross Mebêngôkre cinema. The research highlights the complexity of Mebêngôkre cinema and the Beture Collective, which is born and develops in a way that is intertwined with the sociopolitical and cultural issues of the ethnic group and indigenous peoples as a whole. We conclude that the cinema of the Beture Collective is a cinema of struggle, a multifaceted practice of resistance, since it is born and develops intrinsically to the struggles for rights in various senses, for the preservation and demarcation of territories, for affirmation as a producer of their images, narratives and memories, and presentation of their ways of seeing and being in the world. A cinema that is also mediation in the complex ethnic and intercultural interrelationship with indigenous and non-indigenous society.