João Moreira Salles the image essayist: write of de self in Santiago and No intenso agora
write of the self; documentary; filmic self-inscription; essay; Santiago; No intenso agora.
The study proposes to analyze the write of the self of the brazilian documentary filmmaker João Moreira Salles in the films Santiago (2007) and No intenso agora (2017), operated from the essayistic mobilization of archive images. Through them, it is possible to envision other layers of meaning, legibilities and understandings of the past, whether this reading is linked to the personal experience of the director who (re)appropriates imagery records, or an attempt at historical revision. In the analyzed films, this discursive-narrative procedure is covered by the director and is configured as a kind of essay based on archival material, reflection in front of the image and the
enunciation of the self. To carry out the proposed academic investigation, the theoretical basis of the study are the concepts of write of the self and its developments through authors such as Philippe Lejeune (2008), Judith Butler (2015), Mikhail Bakhtin (2010), Leonor Arfuch ( 2010), Michel Foucault (2004); of archive and archival images following the theoretical explanation of Sylvie Lindeperg (2015), Jaimie Baron (2018), Chistophe Prochasson (1998), Arlette Farge (2009); about documentary cinema, first- person documentary and filmic self-inscription through the studies of Michael Renov (2014), Alisa Lebow (2012), Jean-Louis Comolli (2008), Arlindo Machado (2011); on essayism from the readings of Gabriela Almeida (2018), Timothy Corrigan (2015), Theodor Adorno (2003), among other complementary ones.