Banca de DEFESA: PEDRO AUGUSTO SOUZA BEZERRA DE MELO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PEDRO AUGUSTO SOUZA BEZERRA DE MELO
DATE: 25/02/2022
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet (Pandemia Covid19)
TITLE:

Found Foliage: botanical impressions in experimental cinema

KEY WORDS:

experimental cinema; ecological aesthetics; cinema and ecology

PAGES: 105
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This dissertation of an essayistic character is linked to the ecological debates provoked by a certain contemporary philosophy critical to the ways of life and to the catastrophic dynamics of social production in western capitalist societies to propose, from a certain experimental cinematographic practice, the elaboration of an aesthetics and an ecological ethics. Inspired by the criticisms of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene, from authors such as Donna Haraway (2016a, 2016b), Alfred Crosby (2011), Nicholas Mirzoeff (2020) among others, we point out some aspects that motivate such criticisms, such as the relationship of a certain way of western life with a predatory way of thinking and acting on the world. On the other hand, putting into dialogue different authors who propose forms of non-human aesthetics, an ecological aesthetics as a regime of sensitivity and artistic practice, such as Adrian Ivakhiv (2013) and Lucas de Castro Murari (2019). The expression of the title “found foliage” intends to return to a certain vein of cinema, the “found footage” films, to refer to the old practices of botanical illustration, such as Florilegium and Herbals. The two films analyzed here, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981), by Stan Brakhage, and Phytography (2020), by Karel Doing, are seen as examples of found foliage that go beyond the mere naming of an experimental genre by presenting alternative forms of production that combine a natural ecology with an ecology of cinema. In order not to distance ourselves from the authors; conceptual, ethical and aesthetic proposals, we tried to dialogue with their own speculations about the Untutored eye, in Stan Brakhage, and the Phytogram technique, in Karel Doing. Critical and theoretical literature about these filmmakers will also be
mobilized.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1134091 - ANGELA FREIRE PRYSTHON
Externo à Instituição - HERMANO ARRAES CALLOU - UFRJ
Externa à Instituição - MARIANA ARRUDA CARNEIRO DA CUNHA - UFPE
Interna - 1435892 - NINA VELASCO E CRUZ