Keywords
eco-films
indigenous films
Mayans filmmakers
decolonization
community documentary
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Abstract
The Yucatecan Mayan people have been considered as an historic alterity in the emergence and consolidation of the Mexican nation-state. Extensively represented in the audiovisual sphere from colonialist discursive stances and exogenous looks, their contemporary realities have been made invisible in the movies as a consequence of not being recognized as coetanean of the Latin-American indigenous and peasant peoples. However, this work proposes an approach to the contemporary audiovisual creations by the genuine Mayans filmmakers that enables the emergence of epistemologies of the feeling situated in their own rural territory by means of something called the eco-films. This works examines specifically the case of the filmmaker Robin Canul and his documentary ¿Qué les pasó a las abejas? (218) [What happened to the bees?] that explores the process of how the beekeepers defend their territory in the Yucatán Peninsula in a struggle against the company Monsanto due to the plantations of transgenic soy. The research methods used in this work include the filmographic review, film analysis and in-person interviews to the creators. Regarding the results, special attention is paid to the way they code in the film the discourse of good living as well as the decolonizing strategies when addressing the representation of the rural life. To conclude, this work highlights the importance of the filmmaking from a situated knowledge as a part of a broader contemporary political movement intended to defend the peasant life in the Yucatán Peninsula amidst a context of the development of tourism macro-projects.
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