Short films going long distances: Express Cinema; the reproduction of a model

Abstract

This article explores the symbolic process throughout which the project “Cinema made with neighbours’ express workshops” (2009 - 2017) introduced the possibility of short film productions made from the perspective and imaginarium of peripheral subjects. Said views, invigorated by intercultural dynamics, and incorporated into mass media networks, interacted (socio-symbolically and intersubjectively) in a collective negotiation of ethical values that managed to defy the irrefutability of dominant paradigms by proposing the possibility of an intercultural social order. Analysing such dynamic I finally propose that said workshop series stimulated a learning process that spontaneously generated the redefinition of the individual within a heterogeneous narrative of the collective and, that such new onto-epistemic framework is intrinsically a performative intervention on the coloniality of power’s narrative.