"Me with a pick and cement, you with your silence": the sound of Fontainhas in Pedro Costas' trilogy

• Grant number: 18/02221-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2018
• End date: May 02, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Cinema
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Suzana Reck Miranda
• Grantee: Luiz Fernando Coutinho de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/03634-7 - A sound track analysis of Fontainhas trilogy, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

This project wishes to analyze the sound design and it's unfolding in the mise en scène of three films that compose the "Fontainhas trilogy", directed by the portuguese Pedro Costa, which concern the films Ossos (1997), No Quarto da Vanda (2000) and Juventude em Marcha (2006). Relevant in the contemporary scenario, Costa pictures the claustrophobic world from the Fontainhas district, in Lisbon, by utilizing several of film sound artifices as basic instrument for his esthetic project. We believe that sound, in these films, keep a fundamental relationship with dramatic roots: it's necessary, therefore, a study about the mise en scène and the sounds that compose these films' soundtracks, so that we can conjugate intersectional points and locate, as a consequence, the importance reserved do sound aspect in film signification. (AU)