Técnicas de imaginar: receitas dadaístas e jogos surrealistas aplicados à criação de um roteiro cinematográfico de ficção

Abstract

This research carries as a main goal the practical creation of a fictional film screenplay and a descriptive memorial concerning the development of the aforementioned screenplay, in which creational methodologies such as the ones present in the dadaist and surrealist movement as well as the references present in Alfred Jarry's and Theatre of the Absurd works were employed. This research's main goal is to be a considerate study on the creative process of conceiving a fictional film screenplay. Alongside it, and to shed light on the development of such narrative, a descriptive memorial, assembling and discussing the methodologies employed upon the creative work, composed of references from the Dadaist and Surrealist art movements as well as allusions to Alfred Jarry and the Theatre of the Absurd. The craft of screenplay is brought here from the perspective of the act of creation, of the many possible processes of imagination and methods for exercising those whilst pondering on the result of the employment of such techniques here named as "games" and "recipes", conceived by the aforementioned surrealists and dadaists, respectively. The descriptive memorial, withal, addresses references that are in dialogue with the beforementioned, that contribute to the composition of the final screenplay. This research, ergo, assembles a series of techniques concerning the exercise of creation, that is, of imagining, and underlines that while they can be used in other creative areas, they can and are applied in this study as a method for creating a fictional narrative for cinema.