From Bombozila to Tambor: decolonial strategies in the formation and distribution of peripheral audiovisual in Rio de Janeiro

decolonial strategies in the formation and distribution of peripheral audiovisual in Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article presents a proposal for a descriptive analysis of the Tambor project, which originated in Bombozila, an independent platform for accessing documentaries about social struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean. The project is based on audiovisual training linked to the knowledge of African and indigenous peoples. Therefore, the question that guides this article is found in this movement: which elements of ancestry help in the construction of audiovisual content from the tambor project? The methodological proposal is premised on ancestral knowledge that is related to the ideas of “bastard culture” (RINCÓN, 2014), “circling thought” (OLIVEIRA, 2021) and other Afrodiasporic and Amerindian civilizing values, in the construction of the production project of content. The preliminary conclusion proposes the Tambor project as a facilitator for the construction of a collective memory using elements such as ancestry, oral history and memory for the production of technologies and audiovisual content that compete in the dynamics of “another globalization” (SANTOS, 2010).