Documentary as a mean to express the experience of displacement

• Grant number: 12/15322-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: October 20, 2012
• End date: April 19, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Cinema
• Principal Investigator: Henri Pierre Arraes de Alencar Gervaiseau
• Grantee: Henri Pierre Arraes de Alencar Gervaiseau
• Host Investigator: Philippe Léon Modeste Georges Dubois
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

Abstract

The objective of this project is to discuss the contribution of documentary film and video as a mean of expression of the experience of displacement. Il will be done through the conjugation of a critical revision and analysis of group of works strategically chosen with the elaboration of an original audiovisual essay about immigrants of foreign origin in Paris region. In this essay, the existencial experience of the the author, a french-brasilian researcher, will be included.All the researchs will be done, above the supervision of Philippe Dubois, of the Centre de Recherche en Esthétique du Cinéma et des Images-Institut de Recherche sur le Cinéma et l'Audiovisuel (CRECI-IRCAV), of Paris 3 University, in the following institutions: Médiathéque Abdelmalek Sayad de la Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration; Forum des Images de la Ville de Paris; Cinémathéque Française; and Bibliothéque Nationale de France. For the analysis of the principal chosen documentary films, as for the elaboration of the original and unpublished audiovisual essay, fundamental will be, during the research process, the systematization of the dialog with contemporary studies in the field of film and video essays, in the frontier of art and science. (AU)