JUAN DOWNEY & Indigenous video in Chile and the Americas

LNST 156E／ Indigenous media and counterculture in Latin America ⸻ ʷ Dr. Iván Aguirre @ UC Riverside

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Abuela Grillo

Легенды перуанских индейцев

TAKUTZI NAKAWE

Mapudungun (Mapuche):

LALEN, ESTAR MURIENDO (13 min)

LA CORTEZA DE MI ABUELA (12 min)

Diluvio mapuche (5 min)

Lican Ray (5 min)

NAHUEL (23 mins)

El ngenko (3 mins)

NOME LAFKEN (2 min)

SAYEN Y EL WITRAL (7 min)

Kiñe Rupa (Lucía Pérez, 2018, 60 min.)

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68 VOCES

Serie de cuentos indígenas ilustrados y animados con el fin de ayudar a fomentar el orgullo, respeto y uso de las lenguas. Serie creada por Gabriela Badillo /holacombo.com

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Wendy Sulca⸻Cerveza cerveza (link)

In this 2008 video, young Wendy Sulca sings about alcoholism due to an absent husband and the suffering of working in mines. Though the young Sulca may be singing from a script rather than actual experience, it can be read as a “docu-ficción” of rural life in the Andes. The emphasis on mentioning various regions can be a tendency of collective experience.

Regina José Galindo⸻Performance Perra (video link)

Regina José Galindo⸻America’s Family Prison (non-video link)

Regina José Galindo is a internationally-recognized contemporary video artist from Guatemala. Some of her work superficially dialogues with the subject of Indigeneity in the United States (such as her video project America’s Family Prison), but can Galindo’s videoart be synonymous with “Indigenous video”?

MATANGI／MAYA／MIA

Tamil visual artist Matangi “Maya” Arulpragasm was born in London but grew up in her parents’ homeland of Sri Lanka since infancy. As an artist and musician she has created and collaborated in many of her internationally self-shot music videos. In her 2018 documentary MATANGI/MAYA/MIA, most of the footage is shot by herself in the UK, Sri Lanka, Los Angeles and elsewhere; though the film was complied or “curated” by her friend, Steve Loveridge. Arulpragasam’s amalgam of global media and locations illustrates an arbitrariness to the political labelling of art and artwork. Can her videos be considered “Indigenous video” in London, Sri Lanka, Tamil-speaking India or only those three exclusively? Is Indigenous video emphasized by generational time in a specific location?

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Ennis, Ciara, Robert Crouch, Julieta González, Stuart Comer, Jim Harithas, Marilys Downey, and Juan Downey. Juan Downey: Radiant Nature. New York City, NY: Distributed Art Publishers, 2017.

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Some Mapuche media collectives from the CLACPI directory; a Bolivian-based organization promoting Indigenous media

Mapuexpress

Centro de Comunicación Mapuche, Kona Producciones

Azkintuwe magazine

Adkimvn Cine y Comunicación Mapuche

JVFKEN MAPU, Centro de Comunicaciones Mapuche

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Mexico. Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas. Memoria Documental: Desarrollo con Identidad para los Pueblos y las Comunidades Indígenas. Vol. 1. Cd. México: Impresora y Encuadernadora Progreso, S. A. de C. V., 2012. 1-115. cdi.gob.mx/dmdocuments/memoria_documental_cdi_2006-2012.pdf

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Episodes of Video Trans Americas

Included in installations:

Rumbo al Golfo (1973) b/w; 27 min. Zapoteca (1973) b/w; 27 min. Yucatán (1973) Chile (1974) color; 13 min. Guatemala (1973) b/w; 27 min. New York/Texas I & II (1974) b/w; 27 min.; 2 channels Nazca I & II (1974) b/w; 11 min., 2 channels Lima/Machu Picchu (1975) b/w; 27 min. Cuzco I & II (1976) Inca I & II (1976) Uros I & II (1975) La Frontera I & II (1976)

Additional videos not included in installations:

Moving (1974) b/w; 27 min. Publicness (1974) b/w, 30 min.,  Central Zone (1975); b/w, 27 min., Videodances (1975) b/w; 30 min. Inca Split (1976) Bi-Deo (1976) In the Beginning (1976) Guahibos (1976) color; 26 min. Yanomami Healing I (1977) b/w Yanomami Healing II (1977) b/w The Circle of Fires (1978) video installation comes in 2 versions More Than Two (1978) installation The Abandoned Shabono (1979) The Laughing Alligator (1979) Chiloe (1981) 18 min.; color Chicago Boys (1982–83) color stereo; 16 min. About Cages (1986) installation The Motherland (1986) The Return of the Motherland (1989)

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Zhigoneshi

Comunicaciones Zhigoneshi; Magdalena, Colombia

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Martírio (2016) – Trailer español

From: Video nas Aldeias

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Fotograma: Teresa Yupit, 2003.

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Organizaciòn Yoochel Kaaj; Yucatán

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Cine y video Indígena: Del descubrimiento al autodescubrimiento. Bogotá, DC: La Cinematica Distrital—Gerencia de Artes Audiovisuales. 2012. cinematicadistrital.gov.co/cuadernos_de_cine_17. 

№ 17 of 28 volume ebooks on subgenera in Colombian film English title; Film and Indigenous video: From discovery to self-discovery

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Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica/ 31 de marzo⸻27 de junio de 2010/ Santiago de Chile

⸻Online catalog

⸻Promotional video

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Downey, Juan, Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot, and Ira Schneider.  Radical Software, no. II-5 (Winter 1973). radicalsoftware.org/e/volume2nr5.html.

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