A produção como variável estética na construção formal do filme "Os Verdes Anos" a partir dos seus materiais

Caterina Cucinotta; Jesús  Ramé Lopez

doi:10.14591/aniki.v7n2.629

Caterina Cucinotta Caterina Cucinotta, IHC - Instituto de Historia Contemporanea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Campus de Campolide da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa | 1099-085 Lisboa
Jesús Ramé Lopez Jesús Ramé, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Facultad de Comunicación Audiovisual, Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación y Sociología, Camino del Molino, s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.629

Keywords: Materiality turn, Relational aesthetics, dialectic of materials, production process

Abstract

With this article, we approach the question of the aesthetics of materials as central in the analysis of the cinematic artistic experiences. The epistemological condition is that the theories have to have a concrete application in film analysis. We decided to concretize this research through the analysis of a movie which clearly allows us to understand all the dialectics created by the materials in cinema. The tools and the analytical strategies can be used to approach other movies in which the production practices from the professional department are visible through the mise-en scene as creation value. That’s a kind of artisanal cinema. 'Os Verdes Anos' ('Green years') by Paulo Rocha (1963) is the chosen movie as a case study because of its historic contextualization and for a certain way of thinking about cinema as a “new cinema”, from the point of view of its crafts and forms.

Author Biographies

Caterina Cucinotta, Caterina Cucinotta, IHC - Instituto de Historia Contemporanea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Campus de Campolide da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa | 1099-085 Lisboa

Caterina Cucinotta has a PHD in Film Studies (2015) by New University of Lisbon (FCT fellowship) with a thesis on Costumes in Portuguese Ethnofiction Movies. Her doctoral thesis is published in 2018 with the title “Viagem ao Cinema atraves do seu vestuario” (Travel into cinema through its costumes). She is one of the coordinators of the working group “Materiality and Cinema” in AIM (Association of Researchers on the moving image). Since 2017 she’s a post-doctoral researcher (FCT fellowship) at IHC (Contemporary History Institute) in the same University with a research about Portuguese Cinema of the last 50 years in its relation with Fashion Theory, Sartorial Philosophy and Materials Aesthetic.

Jesús Ramé Lopez, Jesús Ramé, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Facultad de Comunicación Audiovisual, Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación y Sociología, Camino del Molino, s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid

Jesús Ramé has a PHD in Philosophy by UNED (Spain) with a thesis on audio-visual literacy and film theory. Professor of the Department of Communication and sociology by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (since 2017). Postgraduate professor at the UNED of the course “Audio-visual Literacy for Teachers”. He has also been a professor of Editing and Postproduction at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Member of the audio-visual literacy collective «Educar la Mirada». Member of the film Research group «Intermedia» (URJC). Engr. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador Prize for best communication, “Lukács and cinema”, at the Avanca Cinema 2018. He has recently been editor of the book No lo saben, pero lo hacen. Textos sobre cine y estética de György Lukács (2019). Researcher at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Professional film and television editor.

Production as an aesthetic variable in the formal construction of the film “Os Verdes Anos”, as viewed from its materials.

Abstract

Author Biographies