The periphery reimagined: A conversation with Affonso Uchôa

Authors

  • Maria Leite Chiaretti Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, 05508-020, São Paulo
  • Mateus Araújo Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Departamento de Cinema, rádio e televisão e programa de pós-graduação em Meios e Processo Audiovisuais, 05508-020, São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.677

Keywords:

Contemporary Brazilian Cinema, periphery, Independent cinema, state violence, Affonso Uchôa

Abstract

The article brings a conversation between the authors and the filmmaker based in Contagem (Brasil) Affonso Uchôa (São Paulo, 1984 -) about his education and his entire cinematographic itinerary, from the first short film to his most recent film, Sete anos em Maio (2019). The conversation addresses some themes dear to his work, such as the sociability of the community, the experience of poverty and the daily reinvention of socialization dynamics in the periphery.

Author Biographies

Maria Leite Chiaretti, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, 05508-020, São Paulo

Maria Chiaretti is a cinema and audiovisual researcher and curator. She has a master's in theory and history of cinema from Université Paris 8 Vincennes / Saint-Denis and a PhD in film history and theory at ECA-University of Sao Paulo, where she developed research on improvisational filmmakers from the 1960s-70s. Between 2009-2010, she programmed the movie theater Cine Humberto Mauro (Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte). She algo programmed and produced several exhibitions for spaces such as Cultural Center Banco do Brasil, Caixa Cultural and CineSesc. Her last project was the curatorship of the Lumière Cineasta exhibition (with Calac Nogueira and Lucas Baptista, CCBB, 2020). Currently, she is part of the Ubu Editoras' team.

Mateus Araújo, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Departamento de Cinema, rádio e televisão e programa de pós-graduação em Meios e Processo Audiovisuais, 05508-020, São Paulo

Mateus Araújo holds a PhD in philosophy at Sorbonne and at UFMG. He is professor of Theory and History of Cinema at Escola de Comunicações e Artes (University of Sao Paulo), essayist and translator. He organized or co-organized the books Glauber Rocha / Nelson Rodrigues (Magic Cinéma, 2005), Jean Rouch 2009: Retrospectives and Colloquiums in Brazil (Balafon, 2010), Straub-Huillet (CCBB, 2012), Charles Chaplin (Foundação Clóvis Salgado, 2012) , Jacques Rivette (CCBB, 2013), Godard inteiro ou o mundo em pedaços (CCBB / Heco productions, 2015), O cinema interior de Philippe Garrel (CCBB, 2018), Glauber Rocha: crítica esparsa (Fundação Clóvis Salgado, 2019) and Glauber Rocha: O Nascimento dos deuses (Fundação Clóvis Salgado, 2019). He has articles published in Film Quarterly, Cahiers du Cinéma, Novos Estudos Cebrap, Clássica, Kriterion, Devires, Eco-pós, Cinemais, La Fúria Umana, etc. He translated Glauber Rocha in France (Le Siècle du Cinéma, La Crisnée: Ed.Yellow Now / Magic Cinéma, 2006, 335p.) and a series of french authors in Brazil.

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Published

2020-07-14

Issue

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

Section

Interviews