Brazilian Postcolonial Audiovisual SpaceA Nostalgic Digital Revolution

The media industry apprehended the importance of diversity within representation in the audiovisual space through commodifying identities and affects, such as nostalgia. When observing social realities through an affective gaze, diversity in media has the immense power to offer dignity and respect for all people, especially those in the face of constant and sometimes unimaginable violence. Documentary films can play a crucial role in mobilizing diverse audiences by encouraging and promoting ethical sustainable alternative realities. Contemporary crises in the climate, public health, and politics, especially on the American continent, require mobilizations around local perspectives, community knowledge, and ancestral memories. Theorizing through the interplay between underdevelopment and nostalgia, writing in the intersections of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian epistemologies, and observing how they have shaped popular culture, I offer resources to a plural imaginary during the digital revolution.Cheering strategies of resistance mended in the genealogy of different documentary films, I shed light on the power of postcolonial spaces and narratives in redefining Brazil's future based on the subjectivities of subaltern and marginalized communities. In a nation where cinema stands as one of the most influential aesthetics of the Global South, Brazilian media production offers dynamic modes of expression that design natural environments to coexist within polarization.