Aesthetic of improvisation in periphery’s cinema
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2012.2.11005Keywords:
Cinema of the periphery, aesthetic, improvisationAbstract
The analysis of the documentary Super gato contra o apagão (Kinoforum, 2002) and Como se rouba a cena no cinema (Kinoforum, 2006) reveal a significant presence of improvisation – the making, the production conditions of existence – that is what we’ll call the aesthetics of improvisation, an important aesthetic feature film production in the periphery. This discussion is anchored in Mikhail Bakhtin´s concept of aesthetics. When considering the aesthetic activity as part of a whole socio-historical circumscribed, the author points to two aspects: the rejection of the idea of “art for art’s sake” and the refusal of artistic production as a mere reflection of the filmmaker´s psychic and subjective activity. This postulate is beneficial, therefore, to understand the aesthetic organization in films made in outlying communities.Downloads
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