Abstract

GARCIA TORRES, Lilia  and  ROCA ORTIZ, Lourdes. Last Super 8 Pioneers: Cinema Made by Ikoots Women. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2021, vol.42, n.91, pp.121-146.  Epub Nov 01, 2021. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/912021/atc5/garciatorresl/rocaortizl.

The aim of this article is to analyze the process of the First Indigenous Cinema Workshop in Mexico (1985), based on the notion of cinema made by women. We introduce the coordinates that drove it, the implications of cinema made by women; we describe the workshop and its program, the content of the three films produced as to the self-representation of ikoots women, and finally we provide an account of the development of the workshop with emphasis on the particular aspects in which gender played a crucial role. The resulting filmes allow us to enter an ethnographic universe, with the view that each member of the workshop sought to capture; stories and daily life of their community, to protect them from the changes they were experiencing. The films constitute documents to preserve for a historiography of the audiovisual ethnographies of the end of 20th century, traversed by the condition of ikoots women.

Keywords : First Indigenous Cinema Workshop; San Mateo del Mar; self-representation; native peoples; ikoots weavers.