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Looking through the Invisible: Cinema as a Shamanic Translation

ABSTRACT

The article approaches the experience of Vídeo nas Aldeias (Video in the Villages) to explore the hypothesis of a “shamanic critique of the political economy of images” (inspired by a formulation of the anthropologist Bruce Albert). Taking two transversal categories - the off-screen space and the space behind the camera - the analyses of the films are moved by the question: how cinema could assume aspects of shamanic modes of knowledge and translation?

KEYWORDS:
Vídeo nas Aldeias (Video in the Villages); shamanism; cosmopolitics; space behind the camera; off-screen space

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