The Films of Aloysio Raulino

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Image courtesy of CCCB

Recognized as one of the most important directors of photography in Brazilian cinema, from the late 1960s to the first decade of the 21st century, Aloysio Raulino made a series of films that poetically interrogate the act of discovering a country's social body through the eyes of cinema.

All his work, inhabited by the working classes, peasantry and marginalized in society, has one key aspect: the tension and confrontation between the visions of the person filming, the person being filmed and the viewer, inviting reflection and imagination regarding the singular nature, the collective nature and the endless configuration and reconfiguration of otherness.

Using a variety of materials (texts, poems, quotations from thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, popular and revolutionary songs, performances, newspaper clippings, testimonies and portraits), Raulino develops a kind of tropicalist collage, achieving a dialectical and expressive montage.

Each of the films in this session suggests a range of strategies for questioning the validity of the traditional documentary form in favor of experimentation. Instead of proposing knowledge as a way of relating to the world, they force the viewer into an encounter with difference: cinema as a speculative practice.

Films will be screened in original version with Spanish subtitles.

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