Trans image: trance, fabulation and survival at the borderland

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Camila
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Olivar, José Miguel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Poiésis (Niterói. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/poiesis/article/view/52941
• topic: Umbanda; youth; storytelling; Amazon; gender; border; survival; Umbanda; juventud; contar historias; Amazonía; género; frontera; supervivencia; Umbanda; juventude; contação de histórias; Amazônia; gênero; fronteira; sobrevivência

At a crossroads of confluences and divergences between cinema, anthropology, and visual arts, the objective of this text is articulated with the development of a feature film on the network of sons and daughters of santo and the terreiro of Pai Jairo, and the border in the city of Tabatinga (AM) -between Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. We are based on a hybrid experience of research with the network of young gays and trans people acting in the local production of Umbanda and more or less engaged with the sexual markets in this triple border. We bet on the power of the image, the narrative and fabulation act as keys to inhabit and transit through hostile worlds and make counterpowers emerge to transform the real. The speculative territory occupies a special place in the creation of worlds of this network, and the spaces of narrative communion mark its ordinary. Our encounters with this network are traversed by the narrative performances of the young participants and their companion entities. Based on these interactions, we were also able to invent and propose methodological devices for storytelling. To support our analysis, we present here some of the many intimate narrative sequences that emerged from these encounters.