The Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective (also Guarani Film Collective or Coletivo Mbyá-Guarani de Cinema) is a Brazil-based video and visual arts production collective, focused on Guaraní culture.[1] It was founded in 2007 by Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy.[2] The collective produces and disseminates work on a national and international level.
Within the last 15 years Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective, together with Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and the NGO Video nas Aldeias (Video in the Villages — VIV),[3][4][5][6] created numerous film and video works which have been presented internationally.[7] The collective has participated in festivals around the world, such as Berlinale Berlin,[1] and conferences like Indigenous Peoples’ Engagement with Digital and Electronic Media in Nashville, Tennessee.[8]
The Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective sees the film-making process as holistic, interconnected to community, nature and the cosmos. In this case, the Indigenous filmmakers are not shooting a subject matter outside of themselves; rather, they are working and creating within a collective, interdependent, and interconnected understanding of their world order, positioning video technology as immersed into their ecosystem.[9]
Filmography
Bicicletas de Nhanderu (Bicycles of Nhanderu) 2011, 45 min[10]
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^Stoklos Kignel, Piatã (2010). Empowering Indigenous Communities through Audiovisual Work Video in the Villages, Brazil. In: Mapping cultural diversity - good practices from around the globe: a contribution to the debate on the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Sekhar, Anupama., Deutsche Unesco-Kommission., Asia Europe Foundation. Bonn: German Commission for UNESCO (DUK). pp. 107–109. ISBN978-3-940785-22-0. OCLC706959920.
^Graham, Zoe (April 2014). "Three Decades of Amazonian Filmmaking: A Retrospective Celebrating the Political and Cultural Activism of Video Nas Aldeias". Anthropology Now. 6 (1): 86–91. doi:10.1080/19492901.2013.11728422. S2CID158093606 – via JSTOR.
