Cordilheira de amora II: detritos de infância Guarani-Kaiowá

Abstract

Cordilheira de amora II [Mulberry Range II] is a documentary/short film produced by filmmaker Jamille Fortunato, in the year 2015. Recorded in Aldeia Amambai [Amambai village], in Mato Grosso do Sul, the short follows the nine-year-old Guarani Kaiowá girl Cariane Martins. Amidst the ruins of bricks, dry clay, old wood, and abandoned appliances, Cariane creates her imaginary reality. From disposable objects — the detritus of adult existence — she turns her backyard into an experiment on the world. Taking as a starting point the narrative and the voice of the child, our interest in this article is to focus on children's knowledge simultaneously associated with indigenous knowledge, both of which are considered "minor" in the face of a modern world-system that privileges European knowledge - and, of course, adult knowledge -, raising it to the false level of universal knowledge, supposedly able to encompass the entire history and subjectivity of peoples. The fantasy appears here no longer as the antithesis of objectivity, rationality, accuracy; rather, it appears as a potential vector of what we call a "child-indigenous poetics", combative, in its own singularity, in the response against the chains of a "colonization of imagination".

Keywords: Mulberry Range II; Guarani Kaiowá; Child-Indigenous Poetics