Turned black the imaginary of the city: black performances in the production of video clips in São Luís - MA
Video Clip; Escrevivência; Negritude; Fabulation.
The world as it is presented is a fable (OLIVEIRA, 2001) fed back by a collective imaginary built on colonial assumptions that cross time, configuring spaces of power in which the subject is hierarchical. For these reasons, an effort is needed to restore the status of humanity to precarious and subaltern bodies. In this research, I propose a shift from alienation to the awareness of black people, a path that is structured through the fold of language and that creates conditions for these people to be able, through their own voice, to define themselves for beyond what is attributed to them by identity predicatives. Therefore, intersecting the concepts of escrevivência (EVARISTO,
2020) and critical fable (HATMANN, 2020), I analyze the network video clip as a space of security that turns fiction into an imaginative space, a place where beings (re)invent themselves transforming reality. The performances of negritude (CÉSAIRE, 2010) staged in the audiovisual narratives of São Luís - MA from 2019 to 2022, in the works of Marco Gabriel, Regiane Araújo, Núbia and Enme Paixão, are clues to a being/knowledge guided aesthetically and politically in plurality and diversity that strains social stigmas and challenges racist conceptions.