Cinema de Casa de Reza: as práticas desenvolvidas pela ASCURI em suas oficinas de formação audiovisual

Abstract

The Cultural Association of Indigenous Videomakers (ASCURI), from Mato Grosso do Sul, formed by Guarani, Kaiowá and Terena indians, has been seeking, since 2008, strategies for the formation, resistance and strengthening of the traditional way of being indigenous through audiovisual. They have been developing and refining their methodology, seeking to incorporate non-indigenous communication technologies that carry the ambiguity of being able to potentiate the struggle of the indigenous movement, while at the same time becoming vectors of separation between generations in villages. The purpose of this text is to reflect the practices developed in these workshops by ASCURI, inspired by Andrew Feenberg’s concept of technical code, which implies an interpretation of technology no longer as neutral, deterministic or essentialist.