By drawing on shamanic dreaming, this article approaches the conceptualisations of Indigenous thinkers, such as Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Ailton Krenak, who envision a future of interdependence and care between human beings and all matter on Earth, increasingly harmed by predatory capitalism. It specifically explores the visuality of the Yanomami cosmology and Ailton Krenak’s concept of...
This essay considers how Indigenous Amazonian aesthetics can sense and be sensed when incorporated into film. Drawing on Amazonian ontology, Shipibo aesthetics, and haptic film theory and focusing on the function of the multimodal Shipibo designs known as kené in Icaros: A Vision (2016, directed by Matteo Norzi and Leonor Caraballo), we propose that the full-length feature film format allows...