Banca de DEFESA: DAVID THYAGO LUIZ SILVA

The boat and the wind

cities;cinema

Brazilian author's cinema of the 2010s was a rich one not only in volume of production, but especially in its ability to bring to surface, within their respective narrative regimes, some anxieties and desires that are consistent with the sensitive experience of inhabiting great urban centers and, consequently, their modern projects of existence. Using a wide selection of 16 films (14 feature films and two medium-length films) from this crop, screened between 2011 and 2019, this research intends to take a walk inside these productions and weave them in such a way as to bring together, in constellations of images, some common gestures that this filmography reveals. Gestures of scratching monuments, contemplating landscapes, standing before the fire and, finally, of building ruins. From each of these constellations, four different cities will be fictionalized: Motinrama, Mirágides, Agnis and Derrelísias. Each of them has a nuclear emotional epicenter to its subjective existence. In order to visualize and feel what affections this Brazilian cinema triggered during the decade, this thesis aims to make two central methodological bets: the creation of an optical and haptic mapping of the films (Giuliana Bruno) and, simultaneously, the use of constellations of images, connected by their symbolic intensities (Aby Warburg).