Ay De Mí Que Ardiendo,…¡Puedo! An Extensive Note on María Galindo’s Bastard Cinema

Varotto V. · Small Cinemas of the Andes: New Aesthetics, Practices and Platforms (2023) · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32018-7_12

Resumen

This chapter describes and analyzes the “bastard cinema” of María Galindo, Bolivian artist, radio broadcaster, writer and anarcho-feminist filmmaker. It focuses on her audiovisual production, which Galindo has been able to develop, mature and transform during thirty years of activity. The study examines her historical journey and artistic trajectory. It also traces a historical genealogy of the multiplicity of aesthetic languages that Galindo and the other members of the Mujeres Creando movement have been using since 1992. This group is a reference point for Latin America on issues of feminism, social struggle, depatriarchalization and decolonization. The author argues that Galindo embodies the relationship between politics and art in a manner similar to that of intellectuals such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pedro Lemebel, inhabiting a territory that is a much broader geopolitical space than that marked by a border. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.