Rethinking communitarian cinema

Abstract

We need to rethink communitarian cinema from its terminology which segregates and makes its production impossible in our times. Isabel Rodas and Gabriel Paez manage the project Encounters with Cinema. They call their way of working alternative cinema, but it has been labeled as communitarian cinema. This definition makes them rethink how a community can produce cinema with high standards of quality. While the concept of communitarian cinema has been a limitation when it comes to budgets and also contents. These are the reasons why they need to rethink the concept of what makes a communitarian cinema.