WHAT IT IS INDIGENOUS FILM AND VIDEO
Indigenous films and videos include all works (made by natives and non-native peoples) truly and firmly compromised to give voice and image to the visions, knowledge, culture, projects, demands, claims, success and fights of Original Peoples in the American Continent (South, Middle and North) as well as those from natives around the whole world. These films talk about everyday experiences, promote ideas deeply linked to the respect and knowledge of Mother Earth, to the protection of ancestral lands now endangered because transnational economical interests. But these films also talk about the promotion of mutual everyday solidarity and work, no matter ethnicity, nationality, social or economical backgrounds; all for the benefit of the whole planetary community’s future legacy...
Perhaps, a basic spiritual and social concern shared among indigenous films, is the grass rooted desire to communicate their mindo not only to their own community, but also throughout their whole region, countries and beyond physical borders around the world.
Indeed, this type of films require a high sensibility in those who watch from “outside”, as far as indigenous films are not aesthetical or epistemologically conventional. Indigenous films are not about idealizing the life of native peoples, these films are also self critical mirrors to take a look into serious problems within the communities themselves, as well as between these and the mestizos and whites that in one way or another, have a key role in the ecological and cultural deterioration of their original territories; therefore, injustices made by local, regional, national and international governments as well as economical oligarchies, are herein denounced as a deep rooted called for basic universal human rights.
OUR VISION
As a whole, the interamerican selection of indigenous films "WURZELN DES BILDES" (Roots of the Image) presented by Tekio Intercultural, along with the aid of the mexican indigenous NGO Ojo de Agua Comunicación; reflects the grass rooted nowadays realities of the Americas’ native women and men. Realities that empowered with a video or a film camera, address the world their cosmovisions, their knowledge, their problems and their fights on cultural, ecological and political realms, as well as their deep spiritual love and care for elemental nature.
Those of us who are part of Tekio Intercultural, are aware that the language of images and sounds is universal, beyond cultural or idiomatic frontiers. Therefore, video and cinema can be used not only to give voice to indigenous peoples around the globe, or to impulse serious reflection in Europe about what’s happening with the cultural and ecological heritage of Native America, but overall to build INTERCULTURAL BRIDGES among peoples from different continents, different societies, different ways of thinking and feeling, gathered altogether within a delicate global reality...
For further informations, please contact:
B.A. Ricardo Dorantes Martínez
widedor@gmail.com
