Helena Solbergs Double Day: Latin América in brazilian women documentary

• Grant number: 25/03013-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2025
• End date: July 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Yanet Aguilera Viruez Franklin de Matos
• Grantee: Helena Brandão Fernandes
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Considered the only woman in new cinema, filmmaker and documentary filmmaker Helena Solberg has a body of work that spans from the second half of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. A Dupla Jornada (1975), her first feature film, investigates female participation in the workforce in Latin America. This project aims to understand the documentary and its introduction into Solberg's work, in the context of Brazilian Cinema Novo and in dialogue with Latin American cinema from the 1970s. The research proposes a film analysis that focuses on the presence of Andean indigenous women and seeks to understand the forms of resistance of colonized peoples through images. Historiography of cinema, always permeated by colonialist and patriarchal ideals and methods, has failed to ask questions about female authorship and presence in Brazilian cinema. Helena Solberg's film is an exponent of this presence and a testimony to the existence of ideals that destabilized patriarchal power in Latin America alongside a European and North American feminist movement.