Casa de Luiza : escritos de um retorno

Abstract

Luiza's house, writings of a return is a work-research in Arts. It started from the reflection and construction of black families visual narratives, in documentary cinema, having my grandmother’s death as a trigger for the process of collecting, collage and dialogue of different traces of memory. For the development of this work-research, I adopt as a discursive basis women-voices, thinkers and artists, namely: Beatriz Nascimento (1989) and her definition of the black body as a body-memory; afrografia by Leda Martins (2021) in dialogue with the escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo (2005), which help me to understand the need and power of using my voice and body – in the field of filmic writing; and the perspective of becoming a subject according to Grada Kilomba (2019), to understand this aspect in the affirmation of myself as a researcher-artist. In a filmic fable, past, present and future are instantiated in the understanding of an ancestry of the diaspora born of escape as freedom, in a constant recreating of paths to be presented in the format of an “artist’s text”, as conceptualized by Rosana Paulino (2011). In this writing, the reflections that gave rise to short films that are part of the research and that aim to contribute to the debate on the Afrocentric episteme in the area of poetic research are shared. The writing of this story is on the walls, in the traces of life, in scattered images, in multiple voices, in threads of memory yet to be stitched together.