Urban encounters: Stasis, movement, editing and memory in contemporary cinema

Autores

  • Cecília Mello Universidade Federal de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2013n65p107

Resumo

 

This article employs a comparative approach to connect cities and cinemas by discussing the presence of the urban space in the films Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, 1995), Head-On (Gegen die Wand, Fatih Akin,2004), Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007) and What Time Is It There? (Ni Neibian Jidian, Tsai Ming-liang, 2001). Shot mainly on location, these films are structured upon a movement between two cities, located in two different countries, and tackle questions of time and space and the fabrication of memory. A focus on their interconnectedness enables me to turn away from usual centre-periphery schemes and propose a new, and more complex, geography for recent and contemporary cinema.

Biografia do Autor

Cecília Mello, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Cecília Mello é bolsista Jovem Pesquisador da FAPESP na EFLCH, Unifesp Campus Guarulhos, com a pesquisa ‘Intermidialidade, Estética e Política no Cinema Chinês de Jia Zhang-ke’. Foi bolsista FAPESP de pós-doutorado (2008-2011, ECA-USP) com a pesquisa ‘Movimento e Espaços Urbanos no Cinema Mundial Contemporâneo’. É doutora em cinema pela Universidade de Londres, autora de ensaios no Brasil e na Inglaterra e organizou com Lúcia Nagib o livro Realism and the Audiovisual Media (Palgrave, 2009).

 

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Publicado

2013-12-19