230202 “WE DEMAND THE RETURN OF OUR IMAGES!” Indigenous Self Representation in Audiovisual Media (S) (SoSe 2012)

This course forms part of the International Summer School "Mobilizing Ethnicity. Competing identity politics in the Americas". Additional information about the Summer School: www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias/summerschool/summerschool.html

The aim of this workshop is to give an introduction to indigenous media production, which has seen a considerable increase since the 1980s when programs such as the “transferencia de medios” by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico or the Bolivian CEFREC started to train indigenous people in the use of film and video. We will have a look into how these forms of self-representation evolved from those early times when there was a notable influence by visual anthropologists to the growing autonomy of media production with the creation of transnational filmmakers’ networks such as the CLACPI, a specialized festival circuit and ultimately internet television.

Prof. Dr. Freya Schiwy (UC Riverside), Prof. Dr. Sarah Corona (Univ. de Guadalajara) and Prof. Dr. José Carlos Lozano will accompany us as guest lecturers during the workshop.

There is an option to participate in a workshop on media praxis in order to elaborate a short radio feature related to the subject of the workshop.