Study on the organization of space in Rogerio Sganzerla's Sem Essa, Aranha! and Julio Bressane's Barão Olavo, o Horrível

• Grant number: 12/11877-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Cinema
• Principal Investigator: Cristian da Silva Borges
• Grantee: Guilherme Maggi Savioli
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to analyse the films Sem Essa, Aranha!, directed by Rogerio Sganzerla, and Barão Olavo, o Horrível, directed by Julio Bressane, both in 1970. Jean-Claude Bernardet's O Vôo dos Anjos: Bressane e Sganzerla' (São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1991) will serve as a model of film analysis, while French filmmaker Eric Rohmer's 'L'Organisation de l'espace dans le "Faust" de Murnau' (Paris: Cahiers du Cinema, 2000) will contribute with tools concerning the analysis of the organisation of cinematic space. Those two films were made as a joint project within the production company called Belair, founded in 1970 by Sganzerla and Bressane, with the aim of making seven full-length films in only five months, and within an atmosphere of complete freedom and critical approach to both cinema and society. Its subsequent shutdown by dictatorial censorship led to a total lack of access to most of those films, what kept them from being consistently analyzed until now. Therefore, this project also aims to fill that gap through a systematic film analysis, focusing on the particular characteristics of the organization of space in those two films of the Belair period. (AU)