SUMMARY Manifiesto: Towards a Decolonial Video about El bembé del amor

Abstract

The intention of this manifesto is to interrupt the historical flow of the scopic regime, constructed by the aesthetic studies of the ‘modern colonial world system’ (Quijano, 2000) in Europe around the 18th century. From that moment on, a myriad of taxonomies and exclusions developed, in which the experience of the ‘condemned of the earth’ (Fanon 1963) was silenced by allegedly Eurocentric erudition. Film and visual studies have been fundamental in shaping the subjectivity of subjects. In other words, they have become a device for the production of truth. On this basis, the work of the decolonial political process within transmodernity (Dussel, 1994) develops together the visibilisation of other existing worlds as a result of the ontological turn and in resonance with dialogues that have different methodologies for addressing the civilisational crisis that the West has produced, and which today is seriously threatening our very existence.