Screening Dispossession in Abya Yala: Collaborative Filmmaking and Environmental Justice in Mining Contexts
In this talk, I examine how Indigenous peoples in Abya Yala (Latin America) mobilize collaborative filmmaking to resist mining dispossession, even as the technologies of film and video remain entangled in extractive systems. I argue that Indigenous cosmopolitics plays a central role in contemporary audiovisual narratives that contest hegemonic representations of mining, contributing to the decolonization of extractivist perspectives and to the defense of Indigenous territorial, visual, and cultural sovereignty in Abya Yala. Drawing on selected films from Peru and Brazil and the work of Indigenous thinkers such as Ailton Krenak and Davi Kopenawa, I introduce the concept of “orphanization”...