The etnofiction in Bahman Ghobadi - Jean Rouch and the Visual Anthropology in Portugal as a basis for thinking the cinema of Bahman Ghobadi

• Grant number: 15/23112-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 25, 2016
• End date: October 14, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
• Grantee: Kelen Pessuto
• Supervisor: Catarina Sousa Brandao Alves Costa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/09757-7 - Ethnofiction, childhood and resistance in the Kurdish-Iranian cinema of Bahman Ghobadi, BP.DR

Abstract

This research aims to define what is the ethnofiction and as the films of the Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi can be read in this light. The director opts for use "non" actors, an improvisational cinema, by creating the plot or managing these "actors" and participates in a collaborative process with the filmed community because his films are based on their lives.The films that I chose for this analysis are A Time For Drunken Horses (2000) and Turtles Can Fly (2004), which present crucial issues both for anthropology and cinema, as the representation of the child, the idea of nation and identity, the artifice and verisimilitude.I intend to answer this problem through the issues discussed in the field of visual anthropology and film theory, doing a comparative analysis of Ghobadi's films with films classified as etnoficcionais both the French side, represented by Jean Rouch, as the Portuguese side, as Leitão de Barros, António Campos and the trilogy of Fontainhas, by Pedro Costa. (AU)