Este é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto (Open Access) sob a licença Creative Commons Attribution, que permite uso, distribuição e reprodução em qualquer meio, sem restrições desde que o trabalho original seja corretamente citado.Galaxia (São Paulo, online), ISSN 1982ISSN -2553 Palavras-chave: vídeo nas aldeias; comunidades de cinema; cosmopolítica.Abstract: Reviewing, twisting, reversing and resuming images: film communities and cosmopolitics -This paper observes communities of spectators in its actual appearance in films directed by (or in co-authorship with) indigenous groups. Indeed, this production (particularly within Video in the Villages project) shows that beyond of a method or procedure, exhibiting films for a unique community assumes the statute of a dispositive, which has not only cinematic implications but also cosmopolitical ones. In movies such as A arca dos Z'oé (1993), Centers. Dir. Vito Acconti, 1971, 23min., p&b, som. 3 No original: "a line of sight that begins at Acconci's plane of vision and ends at the eyes of his projected double." 4 Reverse Television. Dir. Bill Viola, 1983, cor, som. 5 De modo reduzido, o trabalho circulou pela WGBH TV, entre 14 e 28 de novembro de 1983.