Na extremidade do divã: a videoarte presente no primeiro longa metragem de Dora Longo Bahia o caso Dora (2016)

Abstract

This article seeks to construct a critique of the film O Caso Dora (2016), directed by multimedia artist Dora Longa Bahia, using concepts raised in the book Extremidades do Vídeo (Extremities of Video), by video art researcher Christine Mello. If the feature film, in turn, aims to unravel the role of art in contemporary times, being the result of Dora's postdoctoral studies, Christine Mello will argue in her manuscript for the primacy of the audiovisual format, as ars artium of postmodernity, capable of encompassing it in all its ephemerality and hybridism. The analysis consists of highlighting how the film illustrates points outlined in the book about the appropriation of videographic language today and its media interconnection, capable of bringing together profuse themes in a unique way, just as O Caso Dora proposes to do.