Aesthetics, poetics and politics on the scene: meetings with brazilian women filmakers
Woman directors; Female protagonism; Minor cinema; Feminist aesthetic education.
Mobilized by the place of female protagonism in different social spheres, this dissertation is crossed by issues relating to feminism, cinema and education. The objective is to identify feminist singularities in the elements of cinematographic language used in the productions of women directors and, to this end, for this proposed to: a) Map the trajectories of the selected Brazilian directors and their works; b) Track how their subjectivities are transcribed in the female characters of their films; c) Analyze how these productions can help reflection about aesthetics, poetics and policies of resistance in women's cinema; and d) Understand the strength and power of cinema for education, seeking to value national cinema, especially that produced by women. Due to the sociocultural context in which they are inserted, cinemas by/with women are inseparable from aesthetic, poetic and political dimensions. They are minority powers that insert themselves into the dominant cinematic discourse through the cracks to produce dissent. The cartographic map, based on the Philosophy of Difference, is woven in the search for clues of subjectivity left by filmmakers in their films and in fabulation to imagine possible worlds and feminist aesthetics of images. These representations through their gazes remake the feminine in cinema and subvert the logics of a hegemonic, standardizing and exclusionary system that operates as a face machine, which oppresses and annihilates multiplicities of existences. As a result, cinemas produced by women reveal themselves as deviant micropolitics and give way to plural feminine epistemologies.