Frey AVilanova Miranda De Oliveira G2022-12-092022-11-172022-12-0917/11/2022Esferas, 2022, 3 (25)https://hdl.handle.net/10179/17879Through the documentary Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen (Mita, 2018), this article discusses how Māori cultural perspectives expand Western notions of (auto) biography. By interpreting the film through a Māori whakapapa lens (a non anthropocentric genealogy), the article demonstrates how the (auto)biographical documentary about Merata displays, simultaneously, a personal narrative and a history of Māori resistence. The article includes the authors’ autobiographical reflections as migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand.Journal article10.31501/esf.v1i25458339Massey_Dark