Cinema-golpe: ensaios sobre tempo, corpo e espaço no cinema brasileiro

Abstract

This work aims to investigate a constellation of films, composed of the films Alvorada, Brasil S/A, Com Vandalismo. Democracia em Vertigem, Excelentíssimos, Torre das Donzelas and O Processo. These works were produced during 2010 and are related to Dilma Rousseff's term as president of Brazil. The aim of the research is to understand the potential of cinema in the face of a turbulent context of disruptions and political and aesthetic disputes. As methodological tools, it starts from an archaeological view of cinema (ELSAESSER, 2018), viewing it as an energetic and living system, in which its impacts and transformations occur from the encounter between the duration of the films and the present. It also uses the concepts of constellation (BENJAMIN, 2012) and atmosphere (GIL, 2011) to designate three types of atmospheres analyzed: temporal, corporal and spatial. In the clash with these three categories, the films intertwine and intersect, constructing a constellation that modulates the relationship between the present and the history of recent times in Brazil. Furthermore, it is considered that the analysis of these categories reveals the existence of a coup-cinema, that is, a cinema that mutually manages and contaminates itself as an instrument of an informational, affective and aesthetic war.