Clearings: Realism, Performance, and Painting in Dialogue with Cinema (Scherer) Portuguese
Latest addition to the Library page on Unspoken Cinema: Abstract: "The theoretical-practical thesis starts from the investigation of the poetic processes of the creation of the short film Clearing (a joint work with Maíra Flores) and some conceptual issues that the film tensions: the theoretical limits between reality and fiction addressed through cinematographic realism, and also the dilution of boundaries between the fields of cinema and performance as well as cinema and painting, seeking to delineate contaminations and mutual influences in these different manifestations. Within the theories of cinematic realism, I discuss from André Bazin's theories, in the 1940s, to contemporary conceptions such as Slow Cinema, Contemporary Contemplative Cinema, Realism of the Senses, and Sensory Realism. I turn to the principle of indexicality of the medium to investigate the style characteristics of realist cinema, and explore what Lúcia Nagib will call "physical cinema", tryi...