Indigenism, visual and narrative continuity in the “Ecuadorian cinema”

Abstract

This essay proposes a reflection on the continuity of the forms of representation in the cinema of Ecuador of the indigenous subject. From the reflections made in the field of art to define the indigenism in the Latin American and Ecuadorian artistic practices, the text draws a conceptual line to use these concepts in the cinematographic analysis and applies them to two contemporary Ecuadorian feature films: El facilitador by Víctor Arregui and Killa by Alberto Muenala. The main premise is to look for the colonial backwardness around the definition of the indigenous subject as the otherness of white people in the Ecuadorian context, specifically in its cinema.