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| Author(s): |
Lygia Pereira dos Santos Costa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2021-02-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Almir Antonio Rosa;
Rosane da Silva Borges;
Edileuza Penha de Souza
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| Advisor: | Almir Antonio Rosa |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to analyze how the cinematic gazes of Viviane Ferreira, Everlane Moraes, Glenda Nicácio and Renata Martins, black women directors of Brazilian cinema, are part of the game of politics that organizes us as a society. From semi-structured interviews and the analysis (in an aesthetic, formal and historic al perspective) of nine films directed by them, we observe that, in order to think about the audiovisual proposed by these creators, it is necessary to build a visual grammar, where the afrofabulations, presences, ethical perspectives and other poetic and technical elements can fit. They are anchored in the Afro-Brazilian epistemological paradigm, and many times go beyond what the eye - human or mechanic - can see. As a result, narratives arise that expand the notions of reality, freedom and possibilities of existence. In the Western world, vision was consecrated as the privileged sense, and technical images (created by photography, cinema, television, among others) significantly changed interpersonal relationships, as well as the way we see and are seen. The images started to have a political dimension and to create values, signs and behaviors. Throughout the history of audiovisual, countries of the African diaspora show a common factor: the absence of experiences of black women and/or the recurrent use of stereotypes around them. In Brazil, both in audiovisual productions and in theoretical reflections, there is a process of dehumanizing black subjects and erasing our multiple ways of living. However, facing the racist social structure, directors, screenwriters, and other black women in audiovisual appear to challenge these images and to build a new cinematography, where the multiplicity and complexity of the black experience takes over the screens. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/12114-4 - Black women making audiovisual: a study on the formation of the creative gaze of black filmmakers and their productions |
| Grantee: | Lygia Pereira dos Santos Costa |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |