Alma de papel: proposta conceitual para um curta-metragem de animação stop motion em devir

Abstract

In this research, I present a study about the process of creating a conceptual proposal for the production of a short stop motion animation, called Alma de Papel. The various stages of this study include the experience provided by the Curro Velho Workshops, where I got in touch with the techniques and materials used in the proposal. There is also a short description about the history of Animation Cinema, with the contribution of concepts provided by authors whose analyzes approach the symbolic sphere of the history of cinema, as Arlindo Ribeiro Machado for whom the cinema materializes a millenarian movement of "representation of the imaginary", and Edgar Morin that exposes the semi-imaginary reality of man. The research methodology dialogues with the "nocturnal" face of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, that is, his "metaphysics of the poetic imagination" and his systematic investigation of the genesis of the poetic image based on the archetypes of the four elements of nature (air, water, earth and air), to which I add one more element (ether), besides including the influence of the Dilatador Elemental device created in the subject Movimento Criador no Ato Teórico, and the values attributed by Italo Calvino to poetry, for the systematization of this study. Sônia Rangel and Cecília de Almeida Salles appear in the investigation to talk about the creation process and its relation with the reality lived by the author. To carry out the present work, I admit, as a primary objective, to demonstrate the connection between the modus operandi of creating the conceptual proposal of a film, that is, the methodological procedures used in its making, and its consequent historical-social context experienced by its creator (s), a context that is fully amalgamated with the becoming of their imaginary.