Banca de DEFESA: RENAN PAIVA DE SOUZA LIMA

GEOGRAPHY AND CINEMA: A DISCUSSION ON THE NARRATIVE LANDSCAPE OF CINEMA, ASPIRINS AND URUBUS.

Geography and Cinema; Geographicity; Narrative Landscapes; New Horizons; Migrations;.

The proposal that gives rise to this dissertation in the format of a theoretical essay seeks to bring a contribution to humanist-cultural geography based on geographic analysis and through the language/components of cinematic aesthetics, building what is conventionally called “filmic geographies” that are to propose thoughts about space, not only resulting from literary allusions, through visual and sound verisimilitude, to a reality beyond cinema, but also from imaginative movements resulting from the unusual encounter in these images and sounds of other ways of conceiving and experiencing space as dimension of human existence. The present work is structured in approximations and use of the action of perception between the reality of the world and time spaces between the characters of the Brazilian film Cinema Aspirinas e Urubus (2005), a film thought in the “road movie” genre of Brazilian director and filmmaker Marcelo Gomes, who recreates in a feature film his childhood memories of the stories told by his grandfather Ranulpho Gomes and experienced in the backlands of Paraíba. The main objective of our analysis is to use and understand how the migratory phenomenon carried out by the main characters Ranulpho (João Miguel) and Johann (Peter Ketnath) can be observed as a common factor in bringing together and reconstructing identities between the characters' distinct and conflicting realities. from their histories and memories. Geographizing the scenes through the film's aesthetic components allows us to build imaginaries that feed dreams and desires for survival, where we see each character creating their geography, or rather, their geographicality, a concept developed by Eric Dardel and the basis for our discussions. and observation of the characters' behavior. Bringing this essay closer to the geographic debate, we chose to work with the concept of Landscape, a category that will bring us different perspectives to support our discussion and even though there are solid and concrete roots of bibliographical production on the topic, a new perspective of analysis is always possible as points out Claval (2004), arguing for this statement that imagination is constitutive in the geographical experience, with man being the only being capable of talking about places that he has never seen or that do not exist, giving the world a “poetic dimension”. the landscape is explored by the aesthetic composition of the work, where our intention is to specifically emphasize how the landscape narrates the different relationships built by the characters' migratory action, exposing the ability to guide the characters' movement, as well as arouse the imaginary's desire for imagined landscapes, idealized in the future, which we argue are in line with the concept of “New Horizons” articulated by Xavier (2014) in defense of a space not lived in, but perceived and in connotation with the imagination.For this, the methodological basis we bring is the phenomenological condition of perception, developed by the ideas of Merleau-Ponty (1999), which feeds this statement and supports the proposal of this essay, as it seeks to value the human senses as the main character of its contribution to phenomenology. and their interpretations of the subjects inserted in the world and their importance as the main means of their life relationships. Interacting with the methodology used and discussions of humanist-cultural geography, Eric Dardel, Jean-Marc Besse, Michel Collot, Marandola Jr, Paul Claval among others will conceive subjective, sensorial and cognitive elements in the human relationship with the space of the northeastern hinterland, This space offers the outline of Marcelo Gomes' plot and a place to observe experiences in the landscapes we want to explore, contributing to the construction of different “geographicities”, as we address in chapter 02 the Northeast as a region and the emergence of the term sertão, the backlands by Glauber Rocha for his aesthetics of hunger and the backlands that condition the life relationships and decisions made by Ranulpho and Johann.