The smallest and the biggest in personal filmmaking: Diary, Letters, Revolutions, Elena and They killed my brother

• Autor(a) principal: Veiga, Roberta Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: E-Compós
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-compos.org.br/e-compos/article/view/1059
• topic: Cinema de escrita pessoal 1. arquivo 2. alteridade 3. história 4. documentário de busca 5.

This paper sprang from the interest in comprehending the way in which personal filmmaking, and familiar trace, can make us reflect on the alter nature of self, i.e. the incorporation of otherness, of the world, and of history into self-constitution. Having in mind this tension between the subjective desire of self-construction and the encounters that characterize documentary film, we chose three recent films whose projects are somewhat similar: Diary, Letters, Revolutions (Diário de uma busca, 2011), Elena (2012), and They killed my brother (Mataram meu irmão, 2013). In all these movies the filmmaker deals with the death of a close family member and, each one on its own way, they also undergo the work of mourning in such a way that the filming process becomes the search, in the present, for a past event.