No rastro de Ikú : uma investigação sobre as imagens da morte em narrativas fílmicas do cinema negro brasileiro

Abstract

The dissertation investigates Brazilian films directed by black people, which thematize the black genocide and are related to non-linear/western proposals for the perception of time, space and the body (MARTINS, 2003; 2021). We look at films that present proposals close to Afro-Brazilian religious-cultural phenomena (MARINHO, 2010; MARTINS, 2003; MARTINS, 2021; RUFINO, 2019; RUFINO and SIMAS, 2018; SANTOS, 2012) and Afro-pessimism (FREITAS E MESSIAS, 2018; FREITAS E SOUZA, 2018; WILDERSON III, 2019;2021). We investigate how such narratives express reflections on the effects of necropolitics (MBEMBE, 2017, 2017) and ongoing slavery (WILDERSON III, 2021) on black space-time-spiritual experiences. In this direction, the films “Rapsódia para um homem negro” (Gabriel Martins, 2015), “Rio das Almas e Negras Memórias” (Taize Inácia and Thaynara Rezende, 2019), “Egum” (Yuri Costa, 2020) and “M8: quando a morte socorre a vida” (Jeferson De, 2020), were taken as objects and had their narrative and imagetic structures (XAVIER, 2007) analyzed. It is concluded, among the other observed observations, that such a filmic constellation (SOUTO, 2019) presents a proposal for ethical, political and historical reflection, through the claim and expansion of the category of ancestry, promoting gestures of imagetics ebós that demand restitution of justice for black people, in addition to rethinking the genocide of this population using the cosmo-epistemological bases of candomblé ketu-nagô and umbanda.