A memória e o fascínio pelo tempo na tendência slow cinema de documentário

Abstract

The fascination for the temporal dimension, evidenced in the form and or thematic of some works, marks one of the main features found in part of contemporary brazilian documentary. The emphasis on the passage of time comes to the fore when, in the incessant search for the individual's unique experience, the films approach personal memory as the possibility of relating the ordinary, the most banal gestures to a particular way of being and being in a becoming world. And, as for form, the preference for long and fixed images intensifies the idea of inexorability of time, provoking in the spectator what Lúcia Nagib (2013) calls reflexive stasis. The tendency for a more contemplative cinema, whose aesthetics of slowness directs us to new forms of cinematic realism, may be related to what has been conventionally termed slow cinema - mainly characterized by the fixation with time, the use of long shots, the lack of plot and the focus on everyday life.