[ecrea] The Ukamau Group. One-day Symposium

One-day symposium:

*The Ukamau Group: New Perspectives on Cinematic Practices, Overshadowed 
Practitioners, and Texts. *

**

Monday 28th of May 2018

Department of Film Studies. University of St Andrews (Scotland)

The Bolivian film group Ukamau developed one of the most remarkable 
trajectories of Latin American political cinema, since the 1960s. Their 
work methodology was characterised by the incorporation of the Andean 
indigenous populations and subaltern subjects to emancipatory cinematic 
processes in countries (Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador) without 
well-established film industries. To this end, the Ukamau group created 
a decolonised cinematic practice and a filmic language based on the 
Andean cosmovision to communicate effectively and coherently with their 
target audiences, the Andean indigenous peasant and working-class 
majorities.

This event is designed to offer Ukamau’s specialists, from both sides of 
the ocean, the possibility of sharing their latest research findings on 
Ukamau’s practices and texts, with an especial focus on newer 
perspectives, such as transnational, pan-Andean, decolonial, feminist, 
and production and labour approaches.

Everyone welcome. Please note that the event is bilingual (English and 
Spanish).

**

*_Programme_*

9.30-10.00. Arrivals and coffee.

10.00-10.05. Opening address by Isabel Seguí.

10.05-10.55.  David M.J. Wood (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / 
University of Cambridge), “Ukamau Before /Ukamau/: Film Culture, 
Propaganda, and the National Revolution.”


All papers followed by a response by Michael Chanan (University of 
Roehampton) and group discussion.

10.55-11.30. Screening/Aysa/(1965). Presented by David Wood.


11.30-12.10. Jonathan Alderman (University of St Andrews), “The social 
context and consequences of /Blood of the Condor/ (Ukamau, 1969).”


12.10-12.50. María Aimaretti (CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires), 
“Tejidos, elipses y espirales: la memoria(s) como obsesión y práctica 
política en el Grupo Ukamau.”

12.50-13.30. Break. Lunch Provided.

13.30-14.10. Isabel Seguí (University of St Andrews), “Beatriz Palacios: 
Ukamau’s Cornerstone (1974-2003).”

14.10-14.50. Molly Geidel (University of Manchester), “The Destruction 
of the Development Film.”

14.50-15.15. Coffee Break.

15.15-16.00. Short interventions:

Mario Županović (University of Zadar), “/Indianismo/,/Indigenismo/, 
and/Cholismo./”


Marie-Eve Monette (University of Alabama), “Ukamau’s Legacy and a New 
Generation of Filmmakers: La Escuela Andina de Cinematografía.”

16.00-16.45. Plenary and future projects.

16.45- 17.00. Final Remarks.

*This event is sponsored **by Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS).*

**

*Registration: 
*https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/film-studies/the-ukamau-group-new-perspectives-on-cinematic-practices-overshadowed-practitioners-and-texts



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