Experimental acting in cinema: mimesis at the borders of representation

Authors

  • Sandro de Oliveira Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG), Instituto de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Curso de Cinema e Audiovisual, Unidade Goiânia-Laranjeiras, 74855-130, Goiânia - GO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.656

Keywords:

Experimental acting, Experimental cinema, mimesis, Plato

Abstract

This essay proposes to articulate the manifestations of experimental acting in film with the Platonic concept of ‘bad mimesis’. I analyse a series of films from modern movements set in the 1960s and 70s, outside of what is conventionally known as ‘classic cinematographic art’. The experimental actor denies the primacy of mimesis as representation in three moments, as defined by Platonic thought: simile falseness; emptiness of appearance; and incompleteness of the sign.

Author Biography

Sandro de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG), Instituto de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Curso de Cinema e Audiovisual, Unidade Goiânia-Laranjeiras, 74855-130, Goiânia - GO

Graduated in Journalism at Federal University of Goiás (1991), Master’s degree in Communication and Semiotics at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2002) and PhD at Postgraduate Program in Multimedia at State University of Campinas (Unicamp) with research in experimental acting in cinema. Professor at State University of Goiás - Goiânia - Laranjeiras Unit, in the disciplines of Cinema History, audiovisual languages in Cinema and Audiovisual course. Member of ACCRA (Approches contemporaines de la création et de la réflexion artistiques), Arts and Media Research Laboratory at the University of Strasbourg, France. Research Groups: CRIA (Center for Realization and Research in Audiovisual), UEG, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Rafael de Almeida T. Borges and at GEAs (Audiovisual Actor Study Group), Unicamp, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Pedro Maciel Guimarães Jr.

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Published

2020-07-14

Issue

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

Section

Essays