Bridging Binaries: Navegando pelo espaço bicultural no design de filmes
Resumo
Este artigo examina como um pesquisador (um cineasta cuja linhagem é tanto indígena quanto europeia) navega pelo "entre" que, às vezes, perturba as convenções culturais. Como um homem gay que se identifica como bicultural, eu me oriento com, dentro e entre mundos. A partir dessa posição, minhas abordagens são amplamente moldadas pelos valores maoris de manaakitanga (cuidar das necessidades das pessoas), kaitiakitanga (proteger e cuidar de toda a criação) e whanaungatanga (criar e manter relacionamentos). Esses valores são complementados por valores que emanam de minha posição como ativista gay e as preocupações resultantes com a justiça social e o enfrentamento do apagamento, da marginalização ou da exotização das identidades LGBTQ+. Embora eu tenha ascendência mestiça, vejo meu posicionamento bicultural como uma maneira de acessar uma forma de pluralismo epistemológico que abrange formas intelectuais, físicas, sociais e espirituais de conhecimento. Assim, ao criar o longa-metragem Punch (Ings, 2022), foi necessário encontrar um lugar para me posicionar, na prática, como um designer de histórias bicultural. Isso envolveu a realização de cuidados produtivos dentro da forma como a produção do filme foi vivenciada, trabalhando em comunhão com a terra como um ser vivo e navegando em tensões de transgressão ao estabelecer facilidades para orientação e percepção cultural dentro do projeto.
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