Rostos e tensões: um estudo ético do rosto no documentário Edifício Master

Abstract

This dissertation pretend to research the documentary Edifício Master (2002) as of conditions of aproach of character. For this, we adopt a concepcion of the face funded in Emmanuel Levinas (2014), for who the human face it is not all about the exteriority of image, but extends to understanding of ethic as serarch of human sense as of otherness, of face of other. Therefore, in this cutting the face concept of Levinas is explored as a center axis that comprehend the ethics implications that to go through the other image in documentary cinema, problematizated by authors like Bill Nichols (2016), César Guimarães e Cristiane Lima (2007) e Consuelo Lins (2004). Althoug, this research does not present biographical claims regarding the work of Eduardo Coutinho, becomes indispensable to go trough the realization mode of filmmaker, notable for use of the interview and the notion of encounter with the other as production of meaning and phenomenon. In the sense, also aims to approach the idea of face and relation with the face in cinematographic close. In terms methodologics, seeks to cross the materiality of the documentary Edifício Master in an attempt to understand how Eduardo Coutinho and his team allow us to think the face as a revelation of desire to meet the other. As well as understanding the extent to wich the language of editing and the form of cinema practiced by Coutinho influences and moves the performances, wich seem to be in a complex dimension in front of the camera.