Resistance and inequality. Entographic cinema in Colombia

This article studies the relationship between the indigenous world and documentary filmmaking as well as the audiovisual industry as a representative medium in Colombia. By selecting and making an historiographical state of documentary films highlighting the type of representative titles prevalent in each period, we analyze the intricate relationship between visual anthropology and the indigenous identity, together with the strong association of these factors to ethnographic documentary films. All of these aspects being studied are parts of complex historical and social contexts affected by multiple factors. This evolution contributes to shaping the characteristics of contemporary ethnographic documentary filmmaking in Colombia, which remains associated with the authored documentary style at a time when the reflective speech documentary style has become immensely popular. The role played by documentary cinema as the primary medium of representing indigenous peoples is noteworthy. The overall evolution of Colombian and Latin American documentary filmmaking, coupled with shifts in the theoretical approaches in visual anthropology with regard to the subject being studied, has paved the way for a type of filmmaking that is now faced with significant challenges in terms of the forms of representation.