Produção audiovisual nas lutas dos movimentos sociais do campo no Brasil: dimensões comunicacional e epistemologica

Lights, camera, co-creation: documentary cinema as an inspiration to decolonize knowledge production

“…An important contribution for the construction of this article is found in the experience of a center of study, research and publication of stories of Oral Tradition that gathered story-tellers and education professionals, the Escola Granada, active since the 1990s in Região Serrana (the mountain region) of Rio de Janeiro state 3 . The proposal originated in articulation with and inspired by the Movimento de Escolinhas de Arte (Art Schools Movement) that had as one of its initial theoretical references the Education through Art thesis by Herbert Read 5 .…”

“…In the context of academic interchange, the authors of this article have deepened the thinking about the epistemologies of the South with a permanence of 18 months in the research program conducted by Boaventura de Sousa Santos at the University of Coimbra. Thus, the reflections were matured, enabling the articulation of epistemological, theoretical, methodological and educational referential that sought to advance on the direction of sensitive co-laboractive methodologies 3 .…”

“…In this study, we seek to understand the audio-visual as a strategy of knowledge production and visibility of the emancipatory struggles 3 . In this perspective, the sociology of images of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui 14 advances on the proposal of a visual anthropology connected to the social struggles, because it enables a variety of voices and expressions that multiply to visions produced in them.…”

“…In the case of the documentaries that are the empirical object of this study, the central issue lies in the bet that they can express multiple voices and knowledges, being spaces of articulation, co-labor-action and co-creation, promoting the construction and broadening of intercultural dialogues around the mottes that move them, as well as the encounter of interdisciplinary dialogues involving distinct knowledges and collaborative practices 3 . In this logic, they express possibilities of approximation between scientific knowledges and those produced by the social subjects, including ethical, artisanal and artistic knowledges and processes that merge reason and affection, the basis of corazonar 15 .…”

“…There is also the narrative analysis of the scenes 3 that show creative dynamics that articulate scientific knowledge and the audio-visual language of documentary cinema. Finally, this paper presents a discussion about how both the production and the circulation of films can inspire innovative practices of co-presence, co-creation and coproduction toward the renewal of knowledge production methodologies directed to social transformation by means of interdisciplinary and intercultural articulations and dialogues 3 .…”