Indigenous Film Ecologies in India

南亚的土著生态旨在1)通过共同创作的做法巩固土著电影制作方法；2)发展以研究为基础的土著电影制作文化，解决公共领域的不对称问题；3)研究土著电影的不同生态。拟议的项目是基于与印度非公开化部落社区(DNTs)的土著艺术家和电影制作人集体的研究伙伴关系，并与游牧民族电影有关。这些社区在殖民时期被贴上“天生罪犯”的标签，他们积极地被排除在知识生产过程和公民身份之外，并继续通过犯罪、原始主义和受害者的框架在主流媒体上被歪曲。该项目整合了一种为记录全球大流行的本土经验而开发的电影制作方法和形式，并将其带到印度边境的不同地区和社区：海洋、沙漠和山区。这些是生态破坏的地点，随着海床上升、降雨模式不同寻常、高温加剧和荒漠化--传统的迁徙、生计、营养和住所模式受到挑战，社区不得不迅速适应新的生活条件，这些地点正变得越来越不适合居住。该项目是以集体反身实践为基础的行动研究干预措施，包括：1)培训部分，包括适应低识字率和数字技能社区需要的电影制作技术培训，以及研究方法和集体反身实践培训，以支持社区制定自己的研究问题和项目，同时借鉴和转变其创作实践；2)促进部分，目的是发展土著电影制作文化，巩固游牧电影作为土著电影中心的地位，并发展“游牧电影节”；3)一个研究部分，侧重于社区艺术实践中的变革，既与培训有关，也与数字艺术的发展有关，因为这是参与该国创造性经济的当务之急。项目的价值在于过程本身--在这方面，它的产出和影响、方法论和认识论都是相互关联的。在有形产出方面，该项目将产生：1)制作至少6部虚构和非虚构电影，作为游牧电影节的一部分，与全国各地土著群体制作的精选电影一起放映；2)创建一个游牧电影节，作为该国土著电影出版物的中心；3)出版反映这些边境地区的进程和方法以及艺术做法转变的出版物。更广泛地说，该项目将有助于合作研究实践的转变，超越“参与式”模式和社会参与的艺术实践。它还将干预知识生产的多模式方法，同时为新兴和充满活力的实践社区提供一个平台。

Indigenous Ecologies in South Asia aims to 1) consolidate, through practices of co-creation, an indigenous methodology for filmmaking; 2) develop a culture of indigenous research-based filmmaking that address asymmetries in the public sphere; and 3) research different ecologies of indigenous film. The proposed project is based on a research partnership with a collective of indigenous artists and filmmakers belonging India's DeNotified Tribal communities (DNTs) and associated with Nomad Movies. These are communities who were labelled as 'criminal by birth' during the colonial period, who have been actively excluded from processes of knowledge production, as well as from citizenship, and who continue to be misrepresented in mainstream media through the frames of criminality, primitivism and victimhood. The project consolidates a methodology and form of filmmaking developed to document indigenous experiences of the global pandemic and takes it to different regions and communities at India's borderlands: the sea, the desert and the mountains. These are sites of ecological disruption that are becoming increasingly unliveable with rising sea beds, uncharacteristic rainfall patterns, increased heat and desertification- where traditional patterns of migration, of livelihood, nutrition and shelter are being challenged and where communities are having to adapt fast to new conditions of life. The project is designed as an action-research intervention based on collective reflexive practice that comprises: 1) a training component involving technical training in filmmaking adapted to the needs of communities with low literacy and digital skills, in combination with training in research methods and collective reflexive practice to support communities in developing their own research questions and projects, while drawing on and transforming their creative practice; 2) a promotional component with the objective of developing a culture of indigenous filmmaking, consolidating Nomad Movies as a hub for indigenous film and at developing a 'Nomad Film Festival'; and 3) a research component focussed on the transformations in communities' artistic practices, both in relation to the training and in relation to the expansion of the digital as an imperative to participate in the country's creative economies. The value of the project lies in the process itself - and in this respect its outputs and impacts, methodology and epistemology, are enmeshed. In terms of tangible outputs, the project will result in 1) the production of at least six fiction and non-fiction films that will be showcased as part of the Nomad Film Festival, alongside selected films produced by indigenous groups across the country; 2) the creation of a Nomad Film Festival as a hub for indigenous film publications in the country; 3) publications reflecting on the processes and methodology and on the transformation of artistic practices in these border regions. More broadly, the project will contribute to a transformation of collaborative research practice, moving beyond 'participatory' models and socially engaged art practices. It will also be an intervention into multimodal methods of knowledge production, while providing a platform for an emergent and vibrant community of praxis.