Pieśń powrotu. Ekologiczna czasowość i epistemologia indygeniczna: „Singing Back the Buffalo” Tashy Hubbard
Song of Return: Ecological Temporality and Indigenous Epistemology. “Singing Back the Buffalo” by Tasha Hubbard

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary film studies inspired by postcolonial, ecological, and posthumanist turns increasingly move away from a representational understanding of space toward conceiving film as a relational and processual practice. From this perspective, the cinematic world is composed not of stable objects but of dynamic relations which are subject to historical processes of rupture associated with colonialism and modern forms of environmental exploitation. The article interprets these processes through the lens of indigenous epistemologies, in which the relationality of the world has ontological, ecological, and temporal dimensions rooted in memory, cyclicality, and practices of sustaining bonds between humans, animals, and the land. The author analyses the film Singing Back the Buffalo (dir. T. Hubbard, 2024), which participates in processes of restoring broken interspecies relations and becomes a medium of memory, ecological temporality, and the reconstruction of community. Indigenous cinema is thus presented as a form of “world-making” that participates in processes of decolonising knowledge and rethinking the place of the human within the world.

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