Juventude e cinema nos anos 1970: a I Mostra de Juiz de Fora do Cinema Super 8

Abstract

The I Mostra de Juiz de Fora do Cinema Super 8, from 1979, as a synthesis of a moment of rupture in the country, where there was: political opening, which led to the end of the civilmilitary dictatorship; new technology from the Super 8 (the industry creates a device that allows to change the cinematographic language); the emergency of the youth as an answering subject and therefore a provocateur of social change. Analysis of the films in the event and the respective influences in the construction of amateur cinematographic narratives idealized by these young people in the late 1970s. The bibliographic research includes studies on memory and archives, with authors such as Michael Pollak, Andreas Huyssen, Paul Thompson, Pierre Nora, Jacques Le Goff and Verena Alberti. On the superoitist movement, Flávio Rogério Rocha, John David Beal, P. Dargy and N. Bau were essential. The research uses oral history methodology, and, through testimonial of five participants of the festival, seeks to reconstitute the climate of the time and the relationship of filmmakers with cinema. These reports are complemented by the documentary research, executed in public and personal collections, and that are constituted in journalistic matters, documents of the time and the films exhibited during the event. Between the directors, it was possible to realize that many of them became to film to expose their ideas, and the Super 8, cheaper and easy handling, proved to be the ideal format for that purpose.