The image that makes a symptom: On the naturalistic method of Cláudio Assis

Authors

  • Bruno Leites Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Departamento de Comunicação, 90035-007, Porto Alegre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.635

Keywords:

Filmmaker's theory, spectator, symptom, naturalism, Cláudio Assis

Abstract

In this article, I investigate statements enunciated and images produced by Cláudio Assis, seeking to understand the conception that the filmmaker makes about his own cinema and the spectator he aims to reach. Assis’ combination in image of the need to discomfort and the need to satisfy the spectator indicates that the filmmaker understands the image as a materiality that should provoke symptom experiences in society.

Author Biography

Bruno Leites, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Departamento de Comunicação, 90035-007, Porto Alegre

Bruno Leites is a professor in the field of photography, attached to the Department of Communication at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Currently, he is coordinator of the Thematic Seminar Theory of Filmmakers, at the Brazilian Society for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (SOCINE). In 2017, he defended a PhD thesis on naturalistic Brazilian cinema from the 2000s, at the Postgraduate Program in Communication, UFRGS, with a doctoral internship at the Cinema and Audiovisual Studies Research Institute, Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3.

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Published

2020-07-14

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Filmmakers’ theory: an approach to the study of cinema

Section

Special Section