Retratos e testemunhos nas memórias da repressão e da resistência: uma interpretação do filme retratos de identificação dirigido por Anita Leandro

Abstract

The documentary Portraits of identification direct by Anita Leandro (2014) is based on portraits and testimonies of four protagonists who participated in the military coup resistance movement´s. The article presents an interpretation of the film with the objective of problematizing the question of relations between the portraits of repression and the testimonies of the victims, during a conflicting process of reconstituting memories. It is consider that this is a relevant problem in the field of research on Memory and Information for opening the way for reflection on the archives and the place of images, oral testimonies and documents, in the reconstitution of memory. The methodology adopted combine analysis of visual data and oral testimonies, namely: identification pictures of prisoners found in the DOPS / RJ archives and presented by director Anita Leandro to her witnesses and the testimonies of the victims when reviewing the Portraits. The main conclusion is that the documents of repression and resistance can´t be regard as sources of truth and evidence independent of production and reinterpretation context´s. Thus, professionals and researchers in the field of information need a critical and inquiring view on the multiple potentialities of this documentation for the transitional justice implementation and the historical research.