Animando "Entressonho" - memórias e sonhos como referências imagéticas na criação de um curta-metragem de animação

Abstract

The presented theoretical-poetic research project explores, from an autobiographical perspective, how the repertoire of mental images transforms into material for the development of a visual poetics, using memories and dreams in the production of a 2D animation. The motivation for the research arises from the researcher’s own accounts of having stopped dreaming during a mental health crisis and subsequently managing to return to the world of dreams, which resonate in his new artistic productions. The search for answers guides the research path, starting with an interest in: understanding mental images through Visual Culture studies; investigating the relationship between capitalism, mental health, and dreams; analyzing the creative intersection between memory, dreams, and cinema; and exploring how the creative process originating from mental images transforms into a 2D animation. The theoretical framework is grounded in W.J.T. Mitchell's concept of "mental image" and in the Visual Culture studies of Anna María Guasch, Fernando Hernández, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jonathan Crary, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and Raimundo Martins. The theoretical-conceptual basis on the epistemology of dreams is grounded in the studies of Sidarta Ribeiro, and on cinema, in the studies of Arlindo Machado.