“The Camera is My Hunting Weapon”: The Poetics of Réal J. Leblanc, Innu Filmmaker (Dossier Intersecting Eyes)

Authors

  • Renato Sztutman Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.146013

Keywords:

Poem-films, Cosmopolitical aesthetics, Resistance, Memory, Indigenous cinema, Indigenous peoples of Québec

Abstract

This essay explores films directed by Réal Junior Leblanc, a young Innu filmmaker. Leblanc is connected to the Wapikoni Mobile Project, which trains new filmmakers in Indigenous communities in Québec (Canada). The present essay arguments that his films – both the experimental ones and the documentaries – foreground a poetic dimension, which points to a cosmopolitical aesthetics that insists on not separating human and “other than human” worlds, offering itself as an instrument of struggle and political resistance.

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Author Biography

  • Renato Sztutman, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

    Master (2000) and PhD (2005) in Social Anthropology at University of São Paulo, in indigenous ethnology. He is a researcher at Centro de Estudos Ameríndios, CEstA (Center for Amerindian Studies) and at Grupo de Antropologia Visual, GRAVI (Visual Anthropology Group). He was one of the founders and co-edited, between 1997 and 2007, the journal Sexta-feira. Antropologia, Artes e Humanidades. (Friday. Anthropoloy, Arts and Humanities). His areas of work are ethnology and indigenous history (focusing on the problem of Amerindian cosmopolitics), anthropological theory and anthropology & cinema.

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Published

2018-07-23

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Gesture, image and sounds

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How to Cite

Sztutman, Renato. 2018. “‘The Camera Is My Hunting Weapon’: The Poetics of Réal J. Leblanc, Innu Filmmaker (Dossier Intersecting Eyes)”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.146013.