Vendo fantasmas: o ato de criação queer em Lembro mais dos Corvos

Daniel Oliveira Silva; Ana Catarina dos Santos Pereira

doi:10.34623/8f4a-y927

Daniel Oliveira Silva Universidade da Beira Interior https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2185-2355
Ana Catarina dos Santos Pereira Universidade da Beira Interior https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4066-7486

Mots-clés: Queer creative act, I Remember the Crows, Julia Katharine, Gustavo Vinagre, Contemporary queer cinema

Résumé

Thinking of a queer cinema means reflecting on how film, using its aesthetic-narrative strategies, can contribute to the antinormativity, disruption and destabilization of rigid standards of gender and sexuality. Based on the notion that a series of contemporary movies fulfills this goal by focusing on a queer creative act (Silva, 2021), this paper intends to identify this act in Brazilian contemporary cinema, specifically in the omniscient filmic gaze of trans actress and screenwriter Julia Katharine in the documentary I Remember the Crows (Gustavo Vinagre: 2018). Combining an exercise of film analysis with the methodology proposed by the Filmmakers’ Theory (Penafria, Baggio, Graça & Araujo, 2016), the investigation aims to examine how the dialogue of gazes staged by Katharine and Vinagre in the movie, a clash performed like a pas de deux, in/subverts not only the historical subject/object relationship in documentary production, but also the very tradition of objectification and/or erasure of trans bodies by cinema. Through her storytelling skills and her vast film knowledge, the protagonist establishes a co-authorship collaboration with the filmmaker, which makes the trans body, and the trans gaze, subjects of the narrative. As a result, Crows abandons the outdated notion of documentary as a genre in which reality simply happens and is captured by the genius gaze of the director, underlining the mise-en-scène and the filmmaking aspects inherent to the movie – and how Katharine is co-responsible for their creation.

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Daniel Oliveira Silva, Universidade da Beira Interior

Daniel Oliveira holds an MFA in Film Studies and is currently pursuing his PhD in Media Arts at University of Beira Interior, in Portugal, with a scholarship by Portugal’s Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He is a Brazilian film critic and journalist, having freelanced for outlets such as newspaper Estado de S. Paulo and, from 2012 to 2018, acted as critic and reporter for newspaper O Tempo. Holding a B.A. in Social Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil, he has a post grad degree in Culture and Art History from the same institution, and a second one, in TV Writing and Producing, from the Humber Institute, in Toronto, Canada. In Portugal, Daniel has been a part of the programming team for the CineEco International Film Festival since 2022. He is affiliated with the Brazilian Association (Abraccine) and the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci).

Ana Catarina dos Santos Pereira, Universidade da Beira Interior

Ana Catarina Pereira is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of University of Beira Interior and holds a PhD in Communication Sciences (Cinema and Multimedia), from the same university. She is a researcher member of LabCom, the Head Investigator for the project “Speculum – Filming and looking at oneself in the mirror: the use of self-writing by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers” (EXPL/ART-CRT/0231/2021), from Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and the Director of the Master’s Degree in Cinema (UBI). She has a degree in Communication Sciences from University Nova of Lisboa and a master’s in Human Rights from the University of Salamanca. She worked for several years as journalist for Notícias Sábado and Notícias Magazine (Diário de Notícias), newspaper I, Focus, Up, Saber Viver and Happy Woman magazines. She was co-founder and director of the online Magnética Magazine (2008/10); director of the Cultural Sciences course at UBI (2017/19); coordinator of the Film Studies’ Sopcom seminar (2017/22) and a delegate at the UBI Equality Commission (2019/22).