goyania – outubro ou nada: arquivos, imaginação, montagem, filme-ensaio

Abstract

The doctoral dissertation goyania – october sketches: archives, imagination, montage, essay film, is dedicated to investigate the creation process of the short film goyania – october sketches (2022), in which I performed the functions of researcher, screenwriter, producer, editor and director. During the long editing period, the work gradually molded itself to a different form than the one initially invented, requiring that the approach of its objects – my hometown, its history and its imagery – made a displacement towards my personal experience and the way I related to the archival images and sounds produced in different eras, media and with contrasting intentions. I rode among the archives inspired by a strong impulse to question these images and through them, at the same time that I was thinking over the very experience of drawing a different portrait of Goiânia than the one presented by classical historiography. The theoretical-practical nature of the research made it possible for the notions of imagination and montage, which structured the film, to be taken as starting points for its production. The theoretical and artistic references that inspired the film were also welcomed in this dissertation in a pragmatic way, to the point where it embraced an essayistic and somewhat insubordinate writing, wishing to answer both to the movement of thought that recalled the creation process, re-elaborating the concerns that constituted it and the commitment to building a knowledge in Art that contributes to the studies of essay film, found footage film, visual culture, history and image.