Indigenous Cinema: André Brasil and the Aesthetics of Meta-Reflectivity

In recent decades, Brazilian cinema has become a space for re-examining the relationship between image, knowledge, and Indigenous presence. Within this context, an Indigenous counter-anthropology has emerged as a decolonial approach that reshapes cinematic language. Through formal, ethical, and poetic experimentation, Indigenous filmmakers offer perspectives rooted in cosmovision. André Brasil examines how these films challenge prevailing notions of image, authorship, and form. Drawing on Bruce Albert's concept of a shamanic critique, Brasil discusses how off-screen space functions as a point of ethical and aesthetic transition. His work positions Indigenous cinema as an important contribution to film theory and to alternative ways of understanding the image.