LUSO-LANDSCAPE DISPLACEMENTS: ARTIFICE, MEMORY AND ‘SAUDADE’ IN MIGUEL GOMES' CINEMA
Cinema. Landscape. Displacement. Artifice. Saudade
This research, from a cultural approach linked to the audiovisual, intends to articulate some concepts, such as travel cinema, artifice, memory, nostalgia, melancholy and landscape, in order to problematize and investigate the presence of all these elements in the cinema of the Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. The development of the dissertation intends to make use of both a theoretical-conceptual ballast on the themes previously unctuated, as well as an approach crossed by the bias of film studies and genres, not in a closed proposal of film analysis, but rather a combination between the filmography proposed here and these authors and images brought throughout the text. The work also intends to seek a methodology that involves the fields of theory along with an essay exercise of scientific production. The corpus chosen here involves, in particular, Gomes' feature films, which are, chronologically, The Facce You Deserve (2004), Our Beloved Month Of August (2008), Tabu (2012), Arabian Nights (2015) The Tsugua Diaries (2021). It is intended, therefore, the elaboration of a cartography of this filmmaker and his place in the world, in this case through the contemporary Lusitanian cinema, but this also inserted within an international flow and in dialogue with several other themes and productions, referring and promoting a traveling creation of these works all.