Notícias do mundo de lá: uma reflexão sobre o cinema experimental brasileiro no exílio (1970-1973)

Abstract

This work is based on the premise that all the stories of Brazilian cinema deserve a space to be told. Based on the analysis of films made during the period of exile (1970-1973) by directors closely related to cinematographic experimentalism, we intend to draw possible links between the experience of exile, the condition of the exiled and artistic creation, and also to understand how these themes can mutually cross. To this end, we divide the research into two parts: the first part is dedicated to understanding the place and the definitions that Brazilian experimental cinema could assume in the context of the late 1960s and early 1970s and how this designation will be used here. In the second half we will seek to reflect on the works of directors who, at a critical point of the dictatorship (shortly after the institution of AI-5) decided to leave the country and find ways to continue their creative efforts under new relational and territorial configurations. Among the films analyzed are O demiurgo by musician, writer and first-time director Jorge Mautner, Forofina, by Sylvio Lanna and Lágrima-Pantera, a míssil, by Julio Bressane.