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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes (IA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Fernão Pessoa Ramos is Full Professor at the Department of Cinema Studies, Arts Institute, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Founding president of Socine ('Brazilian Society of Film Studies'), he presided the association between 1997 and 2001. He has also served as visiting professor in the Department of Cinema and Audiovisual/University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in 2002, returning in 2015, and at Nanterre/ Paris X University, in 2013. Between 1998 and 2002 he worked as Coordinator of the Graduate Studies Program in Multimedia (at UNICAMP) and was Head of the Department of Cinema Studies (Arts Institut/UNICAMP - 2006-2008). Actually, he's the Coordinator of the Research Center for Documentary Film at UNICAMP (CEPECIDOC). For two times (in 1997 and 2014) he received the 'Prêmio de Reconhecimento Acadêmico Zeferino Vaz', the highest distinguished prize awarded by UNICAMP for researchers. In 2012 he published 'A Imagem-Câmera' (Ed. Papirus) ('The camera-image') and in 2008 'Mas afinal... o que é mesmo documentário?' ("After all... what really is documentary?") by Ed SENAC. He edited, with Luiz Felipe Miranda, of a "Encyclopedia of Brazilian Cinema", which, in 2012, had a new third edition. He is also the author of 'Cinema Marginal (1968/1973) a representação em seu limite' ("'Marginal Cinema', a Boundary Representation". Ed. Brasiliense, 1987) and edited 'História do Cinema Brasileiro' ("History of Brazilian Cinema". Arte Editora, 1987) and 'Teoria Contemporânea do Cinema vol. I e II' ("Contemporary Film Theory / 2 vols)", Ed.SENAC/2005). He is also the editor of the serie 'Campo Imagético' (Fields of Images) from Papirus Editors (Campinas), with more than 20 books published in cinema and audiovisual. He has post-doctoral studies, always with FAPESP fellowships, at the Tisch School of Arts/New York University (1996/97), at UCLA (University of California/ Los Angeles - 2000/01), at Université de Montreal (2005) and at University of Indiana/Bloomington (2014). His lectures and researches have emphasis in Documentary Film Theory and History and Brazilian Cinema. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The aim of this research is to develop methodological foundations that will make possible a phenomenological analysis of the documentary narrative. We are trying to work with film narrative, highlighting the following vectors: a) the camera 'take' as a condition in which documentary image is formed; b) the 'subjectivity' that holds the camera machine at the 'take', which we call 'camera s…
The plan of the visit of Professor. Michel Marie in Brazil consist of research activities and exchange with researchers distributed as follows: 1. Monthly meetings with the CEPECIDOC (Center for Documentary Studies/UNICAMP) to discuss theoretical and historical issues related to Documentary Film; 2. Weekly advanced seminars in the Graduate Program "Programa de Pós-Graduação em Multimeios/…
This project is about the Brazilian audiovisual of the peasant movement. We will analyze the effective construction of an audiovisual and artistic culture formulated from a rural perspective in the scope of social mobilizations. We intend to think about the urgent need to think of these productions as practices that reveal the autonomy and awareness of peasants in the audiovisual sector, …
This project aims to map and historicize the experiments with audiovisual media carried out by Brazilian artists between the years 1967 and 1977. It will situate these practiceswithin the debates that have shaped the cultural arena in Brazil as well as in relation to Cinema Novo and cinema marginal. At the starting point of this arch, we locate the crisis of Neoconcretism and the radicali…
This postdoctoral project proposes to investigate points of contact, temporary alliances, divergences, mutual influences and other exchanges in the 1960s and 1970s between brazilian filmmakers (Glauber Rocha, Júlio Bressane, Neville D'Almeida, José Agrippino de Paula and Hélio Oiticica) and underground and independent american filmmakers (especially Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, R…
This project aims to examine the work of the north-american documentarian Ross McElwee as a whole, conducting a stylistic and thematic study of his films. We will work with concepts that develop analytically questions concerning the construction of an autobiographical representation in Documentary Film. McElwee's work is studied in texts from the perspective of subjectivity and self-refle…
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This project is part of a larger research initiative, ongoing for the past 20 months in the Multimedia Department at Unicamp, focusing on the history of Brazilian visual artists experimentations with audiovisual media between 1960 and 1977. With a planned tenure as visiting scholars at the Graduate Center of Cuny, we intend to investigate the time that some of these artists-such as Hélio …
The purpose of this research - to be carried out during the internship at New York University (NYU) - is to continue and deepen the original research carried out in Brazil, mainly through dialogue with fellow researchers and by consulting, reading, and analyzing various primary sources located at the university itself as well as in its host city. The objects of the main research are the p…
The narrative dimension of documentary film will be analyzed through the concept of 'mise-en-scène' or 'performance'. The emphasis is at the commutation between the subjective figure that holds the camera in the take circumstance (the 'camera-subject') and the world that surrounds him in a scenic space. The 'mise-en-scène' arena inaugurates a position in the world that can be defined as t…
This project aims to carry out a Research Internship in the United States, for a period of six months, in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). This Internship is linked to the PhD research "Between Autobiography and the Film-Essay: The Documentaries of Ross McElwee" held in Brazil. This appointment is expected to deepen and expand…
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