WEBINAR: THE IMPORTANCE OF EXISTING ON SCREEN

Brazil |

From Oscar Micheaux's first films in 1919 to the first films from Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s, through those of the African diaspora based in Europe in the 1950s, it was just a step to represent other bodies, other stories and other experiences on the screens. Behind the camera, men and women, graduated or not, wealthy or not, well-connected or not, in their own way, express interesting forms of cinema from an aesthetic, political and cultural point of view. These speeches, these images, these biases are sometimes well received, sometimes censored, sometimes awarded, sometimes unnoticed. Its existence, however, is of visceral necessity. Because art and cinema, eager for renewal and discovery, could not evolve without marginal, minority or unexpected proposals that shake, contest or challenge the established norm and order. Through this exchange, Claire Diao and Janaína Oliveira, with mediation by Rayanne Layssa, will discuss the importance of existing on screens, regardless of the form, genre or subject proposed by today's filmmakers.