Cinema, imaginação e espaços poéticos memoriais: antropologia do imaginária no cinema pernambucano de Kleber Mendonça Filho

Abstract

This dissertation aims to present fiction cinema as an imaginary anthropological collection. Our object is the pernambuco cinema of director Kleber Mendonça Filho and his films Aquarius (2016) and O Som ao Redor (2012). Based on the discussions proposed by Gilbert Durand and Gaston Bachelard on symbolic imagination, poetic spaces and temporalities, we propose to investigate how cinema functions as a product of representation and construction of social reality, which produces codes, symbols, allegorical signs, myths and narratives. In this way, both the representation and the construction of social reality produce the imaginary in society. We discuss the imaginary city as the place of representations, the creation of imaginations and social narratives of spatial-temporal predominance. In this understanding, we cover a multidisciplinary perspective of socio-anthropological scope in order to interpret and analyze how the contemporary films that treat the city of Recife as a place of intense transformations related to the urban space develop speeches of the poetic spaces memorials everyday of the symbolic city and the house. In this sense, the dissertation is based on a theoretical research to undertake the cinema as an anthropological research possibility.