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- Title
Subjetivismo e pós-colonização.
- Authors
Souza de Araújo, Mauro Luciano
- Abstract
Following the trajectory of the filmography of Eduardo Coutinho, we propose to extend the analysis of one of the central aspects of his aesthetic and stylistic search. This theme can be summarized in a subjectivity expressed in gestures and words external to the real characters chosen to present testimonials in his documentaries, as a means to capture the everyday habitual actions of the characters in their manner of relating their personal history. Specifically, en O Fim e o Principio (The End and the Beginning, 2005), a paradigmatic film in his career, marks a sudden change in its method and object: the 'interior" search converts itself into an understanding of campesino life as a psychological hypothesis, as much as in a historical dimension. This territorial identity can be read in the recorded discourse of the gestures of these characters of the semi-arid North East of Brazil - something that continues to be a living memory in daily life, local scenery and architecture. Our work is concerned with unraveling this journey, as well as the elements of the post-colonial past and present referred to in the film, a permanent confrontation of cultures and forms: between the documentary team and its film equipment as opposed to the brute, primitive, old and resistant. The recurrent theme of reunion and dialogue mediated by the conflicts between different worlds is evident in all of the documentaries of Eduardo Coutinho's narrataive, elevating the discussion and film forms to experimental levels: the opaque discourse that the documentary film maker suggests presently in his new films since O Fim e o Principio
- Subjects
BRAZIL; FOLKLORE &; motion pictures; POSTCOLONIALISM in motion pictures; FARMERS; DOCUMENTARY films
- Publication
Estudios Sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 36, p33
- ISSN
1405-2210
- Publication type
Article