Cinema para adiar o fim do mundo: juventudes e práticas de documentário em São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Almendary, Livia Chede
• Orientador(a): Borelli, Silvia Helena Simões
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cinema e juventude; Documentário (Cinema); Políticas de visibilidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Motion-pictures and youth; Documentary films; Visibility policies
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/23680

The centrality of images in contemporary times and the power relations around them, the image as cognitive mediation, the expansion and democratization of its forms of production impact the construction of audiovisual materialities. Among them, the documentary: there is a growing universe of independent practices, forged by different production and diffusion processes, use of digital technologies and specific relations with politics, social struggles and engagements. In this context, young people in the city of São Paulo, mainly from subalternized and / or historically criminalized sectors, appropriate documentary practices as strategies for visibility, resistance and reexistence. The initial premises of the research – young people as subjects of rights who fight for the construction of citizenships, whose political practices also occur through the path of culture and are crossed by the intersection between images and digital cultures – unfolded in the two case studies that compose this work: the production and circulation of the Brazilian documentaries Schools in Fight (2017) and Outskirts Visionaries (2018). Based mainly on the ethnography of the exhibition circuits of these two films, this work addresses the social and symbolic dynamics built by the young people involved in these processes, who besides acting in the production, actively participated in the circulation, in conversations and debates with the audience after the sessions. The narratives constructed on the screens are updated and gain other dimensions in the melee in the territories. We sought to understand how young people appropriate the political power of documentary to organize the world according to their views; signify and reframe experiences; produce agencies on artistic practices and on the relationships between different social sectors; multiply reports of life and the meanings of their experiences in the community in which they are inserted and outside. The work paths show how these young people strengthen, through culture and through gaps, material and subjective complaints and claims, such as access to financial resources and public policies, the right to racial justice, gender equality, and mental health. When narrating stories and experiences through the mediation of the documentary, these young people – inserted in contexts of violence, inequalities and juvenile extermination – recreate the idea of hope as an active posture to “postpone the end of the world”. The theoretical-methodological approach is qualitative: film analysis, in-depth interviews, ethnographic observations and experience reports prioritize youth narratives and compose different analytical dimensions. The relationship between culture and politics is transversal to the reflections presented in this work, having British Cultural Studies and its Latin American reverberations as a backdrop, as well as references from the fields of Communication and Anthropology, focusing on youth