Revisão crítica-onírica do território chamado Amazônia no sonho real de meias-verdades chamado Cinema

Abstract

The "Amazon", born as a creature of the imagination of a people who projected their obsessions into a territory already inhabited by several other ethnicities, is a ghost that carries within it deep and conflicting questions. The cinema, in the XX-XXI centuries, re-updates and reconfigures, in a way either more naive or more critical, several of these questions. This paper proposes ways of approaching this memory critically. As an artist-researcher, who directly experiences the audiovisual and who believes in the epistemological power of cinema, I proposed a significant part of this research to be rehearsed within this language, having as method the "reassembly", the "remix". Another part, no less significant, is rehearsed through the word. Presenting the trajectory and the methodological searches of the author during his own critical review, this work trusts on a pedagogical process of constant individual revisions integrated with the proposition of cultural actions that stimulate continuous collective exercises of historical, political and aesthetic reflection about this territory that we still call "Amazon". As a proposer of a work within the research line of History, Criticism and Education in Arts, more than as a researcher or an artist, I present myself as a filmmaker, and present this text as a starting point for education as a practice of freedom