BOILESEN, HÉRCULES and VLADO: cinema and memory fragments

• Grant number: 11/04953-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Mauro Luiz Rovai
• Grantee: Gabriela Peters Cremasco Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study will focus on three films, Cidadão Boilesen (directed by Chaim Litewski, 2009), Hércules 56 (directed by Sílvio Da-Rin, 2007) e Vlado: 30 anos depois (directed by João Batista de Andrade, 2005), and investigate the different ways these works approached the memory of the military period in Brazil. The various aesthetic elements present in these productions, such as for example camera framing, narrative rhythms, camera movements, articulation between image and sound (including dialogues), will be analyzed so to enhance the sociological aspects brought about by the three productions. In this sense, the centre of the analysis turns aroud the propositions that seek to rethink the memory of each movie , as, by and large, relate not only to a lived past, but to memory fragments that are strengthened each time the past is revisited by the present. (AU)