Nature/Ch'ixi/Culture and the Cinemas of Latin America

Abstract

This collection of essays explores cinema’s ability to reanimate what has been imposed as an inert, available Nature—not by indiscriminately attributing life as a supposedly superior condition, but by insisting on relationality, becomings-with, and the performative negotiation of dualities and their beyond. In addressing these concerns, this dossier invites diverse perspectives on Latin American cinema and its entanglements with nature/ch’ixi/culture. From indigenous filmmaking to experimental cinema, from the politics of extraction to the aesthetics of vegetal and mineral rhythms, these contributions seek to rethink the possibilities of cinematic intervention in times of ecological crisis and epistemic transformation. By situating cinema within a cosmopolitical framework, this collection of essays and conversations traces how moving images become sites of resistance, negotiation, and reinvention in the pluriverse of Latin American worlds.