Devolver a História, Materializar o Trauma: Observações sobre os corpos migrantes em Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) e Vitalina Varela (2019) de Pedro Costa

Cunha, M. and Andrade, C. 2021. Devolver a História, Materializar o Trauma: Observações sobre os corpos migrantes em Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) e Vitalina Varela (2019) de Pedro Costa. Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image . 8 (2), pp. 112-135. https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v8n2.769

TitleDevolver a História, Materializar o Trauma: Observações sobre os corpos migrantes em Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) e Vitalina Varela (2019) de Pedro Costa
TypeJournal article
AuthorsCunha, M. and Andrade, C.
Abstract

This article reflects on the ways in which Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa’s Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) and Vitalina Varela (2019) restore the right to narrate and materialize the effects of trauma related to migration and colonialism. It explores the inscription of diasporic bodies and subjectivities in contemporary postcolonial spaces, more specifically in the context of the representation of immigrants and descendants of Cape Verdean immigrants in Portugal. We draw on the notion of materiality as a prism for this analysis, both in the sense of the materiality of the cinematographic apparatus used by the director, and in the sense of the materiality of the image itself and its formal operations in the construction of the experience of history and trauma. We argue that these formal operations, especially the use of temporality (historical and filmic) and framing that create distance, not only reveal an aesthetic of their own but also a political and ethical engagement in Pedro Costa's cinema.

KeywordsPedro Costa
Trauma
Colonialism
Affect
Body
JournalAniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image
Journal citation8 (2), pp. 112-135
ISSN2183-1750
Year2021
PublisherAIM - Association of Moving Image Researchers (Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento)
Publisher's version
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v8n2.769
Web address (URL)https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/769
Publication dates
Published17 Apr 2021

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