“Meu ato criminoso é realizar filmes”: a construção do narrador na trilogia do luto, de Cristiano Burlan

Abstract

The thesis of this dissertation is consolidated from the idea of an essay in the cinematographic field. The essayistic genre arises from literature, having been elaborated by Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) and, in cinema, the works that are built from the essayistic aesthetics are marked by subjectivity and reflexivity, with the presence of a narrator that differs from the narrator of classic expository documentaries. The elements that are observed, for example, are the use of voice over and first-person production. This work is a proposed study on the construction of a narrator close to the real and hypothesizes that this narrator would be close to Walter Benjamin's narrator (1996). The objective of this research is to understand this narrator, which is influenced by essayistic characteristics and appears in contemporary documentary cinema. To do so, we chose to analyze the processes and characteristics of the essayistic language in the documentary film genre in three audiovisual works: Construção (2006), Mataram meu irmão (2013), and Elegia de um Crime (2018), by director Cristiano Burlan (from São Paulo), which constitute a Trilogy of Mourning.