Cinema e interculturalidade em “O Mestre e o Divino”

Abstract

Master and Divino (2013), is a documentary directed by Thiago Campos: it reveals forms of colonial imagery imposed by Eurocentrism, epitomised by the conflictual relationship between two of the characters: a European immigrant and the native Latin American. The script explores aesthetics proposals that approach the imagery that is fabricated around people of diverse cultures. Some details reveal a lot about the absolutisation of culture imposed as a reference to creativity and, at the same time, negate all this when pointing to the struggle against the grandeur and meticulousness of the “domestication” of the natives. The movie also addresses the process of interculturality by questioning the idea of belonging to a determinate culture, and challenges the audience into reconsidering, in cinematographic images, the maintenance of the invisibility of the colonised, in the face of the religious impositions and the reproduction of images of “civilisation” that are persistent in Latin America. Based on the theory of decoloniality of gaze and on the relations of interculturality in a critical perspective as proposed by Catherine Walsh, this work takes the presented movie as an object of reflection on the process of racial and epistemic inferiorisation, which in turn marks the visual creative production of this continent.

Keywords

• image
• interculturality
• latin america
• decoloniality
• culture