A memória é a imagem, a imagem é a morte: Arthur Jafa e efeitos de fabulação no cinema de arquivo

Abstract

The general objective of the research is to understand and systematize the images of the short film Love is the message, the message is Death (2016) by Arthur Jafa as operations. Based on a critical reading of the logical and paradoxical interweaving of art operations, the suspension of aesthetic judgment and the sharing of the sensitive, as a concept that describes the formation of a political community based on the dissenting encounter of individual perceptions, the work traces a path about archival cinema and the possibilities of articulation from pre-existing images. In addition, it focuses on the issues that pervade the images of violence and the possibilities of invention and articulation through cinema for groups whose memory is essentially aligned with the historical trauma, guiding the critical reading of historical documents from the Black Atlantic as a fabulatory approach.