Looking at the sky, hearing the earth: notes on body, memory and landscape in James Benning’s and Cao Guimarães’ films

Authors

  • Ana Costa Ribeiro Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Artes, PPGArtes – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes, Maracanã, 20550-010, Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v4n1.270

Keywords:

Poetics, Displacement, Body, Memory, Landscape

Abstract

Through the close analysis of  four films, the author emphasizes the importance of the poetics of the displacement in the relations between body, memory and landscape. Following the thinking of French philosophers Gilles Tiberghien and Anne Cauquelin,  landscape is understood as a physical environment that gives rise to a relation. The idea of landscape as a relation leads to a reflection on the notion of vestige. From Emmanuel Lévinas’ thoughts  on this concept, this paper discusses  two works made by American artist James Benning and two other by Brazilian artist Cao Guimarães. This research thus identifies a recurring tendency in contemporary audiovisual production from the organization of vestiges.

Author Biography

Ana Costa Ribeiro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Artes, PPGArtes – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes, Maracanã, 20550-010, Rio de Janeiro

Artist and filmmaker. Ph. D. candidate in Contemporary Art and Culture at UERJ, Ribeiro holds a MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and a bachelor degree in Social Communication from UFRJ. Her works were exhibited at festivals in Brazil, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, India and the United States. She currently develops writing and artistic practice related to the dissertation project “Poetics of Displacement: Body, Memory, Landscape”.

 

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Published

2016-11-21

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017): Landscape and cinema

Section

Special Section