Pueblo mapuche e interseccionalidad: lengua, saberes y territorialidad en Newen y Tierra Adentro

Abstract

We will analyze the representation of Mapuche women in the documentary film Newen (Myriam Angueira, 2014) and compare it with Mapuche masculinities (Connell and Messerschmidt, 2021) in the documentary Tierra Adentro (Ulises de la Orden, 2011). We will examine how the categories of intersectionality—gender, race/ethnicity, and social class (Hill and Bilge, 2016; Viveros Vigoya, 2016)—appear in each film. We will also study how territoriality (Bendetti, 2011) appears in each film. We will analyze the editing techniques and the use of shots (Aumont et al., 1995), as well as the use of time (Casetti and Di Chio, 1991). Newen is a road movie, and Tierra Adentro also presents some elements of this genre. The first film uses a travelogue as a tool to reinforce the theme of movement. Like Angueira's film, Tierra Adentro divides the stories it develops through editing. There are four stories in Ulises de la Orden's film and only two in Newen. Nature is an important motif in both films; in Newen it appears as a point of departure and in Tierra Adentro as a point of arrival.