Scenes of dissent in indigenous documentary cinema:

the politics of image among the guarani

Abstract

Based on Jacques Rancière concept of dissent, in this article, i propose a discussion of the dissenting scenes mobilized in indigenous documentary cinema, with special attention to the film Ava Yvy Vera – a terra do povo do raio (2016). At first, the proposal is to think of images as mobilizing scenes of dissent, as they combine for themselves a sensitive life mediated by sensitive entities based on the concept of “beings-earth” developed by Cadena. Secondly, the reading of the film Ava Yvy Vera is based on the idea of the sensitive and political of the image in the figuration of
dissenting scenes, with methods that range from an opacity or a poetics of the relationship to a power of fabulation, to
oppose or reorient visibility regimes.
Keywords: Scenes of dissent. Indigenous documentary cinema. Image policies. Sensitive. Guarani.