This research originates from concerns regarding the production and circulation of images of
the Amazon in various narratives over the centuries. Driven to observe the region beyond the
imaginaries that have been strengthened by repetition, I challenge the perceptions that relate to
exotifications and immerse myself in the urban Amazon. Believing in pluralities and the
constant processes of landscape reconstruction, I focus on the context of the lowlands of Belém,
specifically the Jurunas and Terra Firme neighborhoods, in order to study urban formation in
contexts of symbolic borders, understanding them as an in-between space of complex dynamics
that include familiarities, tensions, conflicts, belongings, and, therefore, a significant potential
for cultural and artistic production in the urban world of Belém. Thus, through a dialogue
between the fields of anthropology and audiovisual studies, this research aims to demonstrate
how artistic and communicative practices are constructed and constructed by the landscapes
lived in the city, and, consequently, by the people and professionals who experience them in
their daily lives. The ethnographic field of this research is audiovisual production (in all its
phases of conception), with its foundation in the practices of the streets and what is said about
them over time. What resonates and what has been forgotten in these spaces that bring the
specificities of these artistic manifestations of the lowlands. Bringing urban anthropology and
landscapes, cinema, and the imaginary together to chart these paths led me to explore places
and follow the processes of shaping a Belém of other centralities, both in its ordinary dynamics
and in its artistic expressions, which exceed the realms of sound and image, becoming a
strategic tool for political-social expression.
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