O trauma do lugar: mineração, alterações espaciais e solastalgia em Minas Gerais a partir do cinema

Abstract

Minas Gerais is a state marked by mining. From its origins to the present day, this economic activity has caused profound changes in spaces, landscapes, and places. These changes have resulted, in turn, in a kind of trauma, a schism in the people of Minas Gerais that is deeply related to the modification of places. In this context, cinema is inserted as a possible tool for reading this economic and fundamentally spatial condition. Among the various productions of narratives of spaces altered by contemporary mining in Minas Gerais, five cinematic narratives with fictional characteristics stand out that attempt in some way to deal with the trauma generated by this economic activity in the state: the cinematic productions of Simone Cortezão, Navios de Terra e Subsolos, Lavra, by Lucas Banbozzi, and the short film Quando a Terra Treme, by Walter Salles. Based on this body of films, this study proposes an exploratory path in relation to the understanding and elaboration of the trauma of mining activity in the state, understanding how each of the productions reads this trauma and deals with it. To this end, we appropriated the concept of Solastalgia from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht as a key to the intended analyses.