Possessed: Arts of attention as cinematic, pedagogical, and caring gestures

Abstract

Based on the counter-colonial process of audiovisual co-creation, Possessed, which we have carried out through the composition of performative and somatic counter-images with five young women from the outskirts and border area between the cities of Medellín and Bello, Colombia, we seek to explore and problematize how the arts of attention emerge amid cinematic, pedagogical, and caring gestures. The cadences, modulations, and attunements between these gestures, as we shall see, occur in the immanence of researching with life itself as an act of radical ethics of existence that resists the oppressions that have persisted since colonial times and that demand intersectional and emancipatory positions, where movements of attention redefine values by opening up possibilities in bodies.