Resumo (PT):
Abstract (EN):
Short Movies, by the Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares (2011), is
hard to define in the field of literary or artistic genres. There are no movies
in this book, just verbal descriptions of possible movies, usually marked
by intense violence; but these descriptions, in turn, resemble to cinematic
scripts, suggesting a set of shots, camera movements, the grammar of a
montage. In this hybrid way of writing, the film is an object that remains
both present and absent, continually summoned and always deferred.
What operation is then required of the reader of this book, what gesture
between reading and seeing, what theory of epistemology, what kind of
controlled hallucination? In short, this essay proposes that Short Movies
invites to the development of a subtle and painful art of suspicion.
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica