Quando as pupilas se dilatam? as fotografias post-mortem de minha família

Abstract

This work aims to present a poetic of post-mortem photographs of my family, exploring possibilities of dialogue with these bodies made invisible by time. The set of photos, saved from your record, in the record of 1970, was inherited by me from my great-grandmother, Agripina dos Passos Britto (1922–2015). Taking as a starting point an interview recorded in 2014, in which she narrates tragic events portrayed in images, a creative approach to the archival material unfolded in different performative acts that I starred in front of the camera, literally “playing” with my body on stage . I recreated scenes and conversations lived in dreams, I walked through the place where the dead live, I went to talk to the living, I connected my ancestry to my descent. The experimental project develops an audiovisual product of short duration, which, through the specificities of the body, reached the capacity of memory, in its visual artifacts, preserving the expressive dimensions and emotions demonstrated in the capture of images. For this, I explore the procedure of cutting the material - which shifts our gaze over the images - returning to these photographs in a recurring way to add, with each return, new layers of meaning in the friction between my present and my family's past.