Por uma política da rememoração: a potência histórica no cinema de experiência pessoal

Abstract

How can personal filmmaking capture the historical experience? Having this question in mind, and aiming at revealing a certain politics of remembering, I set off the collective and subjective potency of self-filmmaking that emerges from various strategies for evoking, constituting and depicting memory. A short inventory of Brazilian films and filmmakers is sketched in order to guide the identification of three figures of self-filmmaking – “self-trace”, “becoming-memory”, and “processuality” – that articulate together a method and a filmic writing that engenders a temporal texture in which memory stands in a creative relation to forgetfulness and history takes a fluid shape.