Narrating truth and doing justice: Imagining (alternative) futures in contemporary Andean Cinema

Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (24 July 2020). Narrating truth and doing justice: Imagining (alternative) futures in contemporary Andean Cinema (Unpublished). In: EASA conference. Lisbon. 21.-24. July 2020.

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Corruption, gang violence, and organized crime have fueled a general distrust in politicians and state authorities in the Peruvian Andes since the end of the internal armed conflict (1980-2000). As a response, a group of self-taught filmmakers from Ayacucho have taken up cameras to tell their own stories of violence and conflict in the region. These films provide a highly critical, if not radical, social commentary on the country's ruling elite and its official narratives of conflicted pasts. Fiction here has the role of narrating truth and delivering justice that is otherwise unobtainable. In this paper, I argue that cinema from the Andes is a form of doing memory politics that resists contemporary memory regimes and allows for reimagining alternative futures.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology
UniBE Contributor:	Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
Language:	English
Submitter:	Anja Julienne Wohlgemuth
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2021 08:36
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:48
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152827