Aborigines of the Canary Island. Myth and recreation on the silver screen

Abstract

This paper tries to analyze how Canary Islands Aboriginals have been shown on the silver screen. This proposal, the idea of representing the ancient natives of the islands, had been set during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the works of Viera y Clavijo or Sabin Berthelot. Due to all of this, we began taking into account those models of the past, ending with the last discoveries about those cultures provided by the archeology to redefine how they were and how they lived. Obviously the cinema used this knowledge to make movies about the Guanches, mainly during the years where the Archipelago was ruled by Coalicion Canaria, a nationalist political party.