Sob o risco das imagens: experimentações etnográficas a partir de duas obras cinematográficas

Abstract

This work investigates possible connections between anthropological theory and filmmaking, drawing on my personal experience as an anthropologist and audiovisual filmmaker. The objective was to reflect on the production of audiovisual images as a strategy and outcome in field research, as well as to rethink how cinema contributes to anthropological knowledge. The work seeks to understand how new audiovisual languages are incorporated into contemporary anthropological issues through film analysis, their production processes, and reception (NOVAES, 2005).. The methodology utilizes ethnographic and cinematic experimentation and is based on a set of essays, field descriptions, memoirs, personal archives, and a bibliographic and film survey. The research developed from the analysis of two original films. The first, Taego Ãwa (2016), discusses the production of new images in dialogue with the Ãwa people, based on archives and original recordings. The second film, Japan (2021), made with emerald miners in Campos Verdes, Goiás, uses the figure of the ghost as a conceptual, affective, and epistemic operator, investigating the ontological relationship between image and death (BARTHES, 1984; BAZIN, 2018).