Production as an aesthetic variable in the formal construction of the film “Os Verdes Anos”, as viewed from its materials.

• Autor(a) principal: Cucinotta, Caterina
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ramé Lopez, Jesús
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.629
• topic: Materiality turn; Relational aesthetics; dialectic of materials; production process; Materialidade; Estética relacional; dialética dos materiais; processo de produção

With this article, we approach the question of the aesthetics of materials as central in the analysis of the cinematic artistic experiences. The epistemological condition is that the theories have to have a concrete application in film analysis. We decided to concretize this research through the analysis of a movie which clearly allows us to understand all the dialectics created by the materials in cinema. The tools and the analytical strategies can be used to approach other movies in which the production practices from the professional department are visible through the mise-en scene as creation value. That’s a kind of artisanal cinema. 'Os Verdes Anos' ('Green years') by Paulo Rocha (1963) is the chosen movie as a case study because of its historic contextualization and for a certain way of thinking about cinema as a “new cinema”, from the point of view of its crafts and forms.