BRAZILIAN BLACK CINEMA
DOCUMENT AND FRAMING OF RACIAL VIOLENCE
Keywords:
brazilian black cinema, racial violence, film analysisAbstract
From the perspective that cinema can be considered an audiovisual document and a source of information with the potential to generate new knowledge, this study aims to investigate the informational dimension of two works of Brazilian Black cinema, Branco Sai, Preto Fica (2014) and A Morte Branca do Feiticeiro Negro (2020), in framing the violence perpetrated by the dispositif of raciality. This is a basic research study with exploratory and descriptive objectives, employing thematic film analysis as its methodological approach. The results indicate that both works evoke fundamental issues for the debate on ethnic-racial relations, including access to healthcare and mental health services for the Black population; police violence; Brazil’s slaveholding past and the legacy of whiteness; and nonviolent practices of protest and denunciation. It is concluded that these films operate as potential dispositifs for the construction of knowledge on ethnic-racial relations, not only through the assimilation of the central themes addressed in these cinematic works, but also through the perception of the creative strategies proposed by this cinema.