Media – Indigenous Cinematics in Latin America

Indigenous Cinematics produces a range of materials, including subtitled films and texts, on the art and act of making film in Indigenous Latin America. This page gathers these resources, beginning with a series of interviews co-organised and co-edited with Claudia Arteaga (Scripps College, USA) over the course of 2019. You can consult these interviews here or directly in Mediático.

In February 2020, the films selected, translated and subtitled as part of the project were screened at the 2020 Mother Tongue Film Festival, an initiative organised by the Smithsonian Institution across a range of participating venues in Washington DC. The directors and producers generously gave us permission to share the English subtitled versions here and below. You can see the full catalogue of films featured in the programme.

In 2023-24 Indigenous Cinematics received further funding from the British Academy to support research on legal questions of ownership and authorship in Indigenous filmmaking. This seeded the idea of a bilingual podcast series discussing the influence of Indigenous legal systems on film aesthetics, how film is used to support cases internationally, and the complex ways in which the histories of western copyright and collective intellectual and cultural property are entangled. The first episode of a limited series on the connections between Indigenous filmmaking and the law is now available here and below.