Descolonizando el texto visual: Bases para interpretar cuatro estéticas cinematográficas indigenistas ecuatorianas del siglo XXI

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore the decolonial elements that revitalize the Ecuadorian indigenista cinema produced at the beginning of the twenty-first century, such as those found in Galo Urbina's Ayawaska (2007), José Paúl Moreira's Saraguro: historia con sangre Inka (2010), Víctor Arregui's El facilitador (2013), and Gabriel Páez's Vengo volviendo (2015). The analysis of this work is based on the theory of decoloniality developed by the modernidad/colonialidad/decolonialidad network made up of Latin American intellectuals such as Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, and Ramón Grosfoguel. In sum, I demonstrate the different film strategies used by indigenista directors to decolonize cinema in Ecuador and to offer us other stories in which the Indigenous universe is portrayed as empowered.