ABSTRACT
The films are seen at indigenous film and video festivals in Latin America, Canada and the USA, and they are regionally distributed among rural communities. Bolivia and the transnational Amazon region is one of the most dynamic sites for indigenous audiovisual communication in Latin America, due to the initiatives of indigenous communicators from different cultures and rural communities who formed Coordinadora Audiovisual Indigena Originaria de Bolivia in 1996. If Angel Rama's thesis on power and technology has had limited circulation, indigenous media, despite their increasing proliferation, may be similarly unfamiliar to those outside Native American studies and visual anthropology. As a critical concept the lettered city has primarily compelled literary and cultural studies scholars. The films attest to a process of decolonizing the soul, that is, the need to counteract the self-denigrating reaction to colonial racism at the heart of the communities.
