Against oblivion: Ugo Giorgetti´s non-fiction cinema

• Grant number: 21/05793-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: December 01, 2021
• End date: July 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Cinema
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Alberto Vogt
• Grantee: Liniane Haag Brum
• Host Institution: Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade (NUDECRI). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research aims to organize and systematize the non-fiction cinema of São Paulo filmmaker and writer Ugo Giorgetti. This work is built in three axes about his filmography: it is a discourse on memory (and not a memorialist discourse), it has a "utopian impulse" (Groys) and it archives the city of São Paulo. It is also about operating with the notion of cinematographic memory of the future, which leaves for the becoming the present vision of the transformations of a living organism, at the same time a collective of human dictions, architectural landscapes and ways of life, within an interdisciplinary perspective; articulating studies on archive and memory, cultural criticism and history. That is, it is also about acknowledge a broadening of the discourse about what a city or a cinema related to is. Along the research, an attempt will be made to problematize the theoretical assumption that instructed it, thus composing a self-reflective study that seeks to investigate its own field. (AU)