O arquivo cine-performativo de Naomi Kawase

Abstract

Based on a conceptual thinking that seeks to put into dialogue theories from the field of cinema and performance studies, this essay intends to visit the self-referential cinema of japanese director Naomi Kawase, more specifically her film Embracing (Ni Tsutsumarete, 1992), in order to investigate the performative practices that the director uses in (and with) the image and how she inscribes her own body in the materiality of the film, constituting, in this way, what in this work we will call a cine-performative archive. In order to elaborate this concept, the present text is based mainly on readings of the authors Elena Del Rio (2012), to think the performance in the cinema from the power of affection of the encounter between filmic body and body of the spectator, and Diana Taylor (2013), about the archive as the material dimension of the performative.