A Panorama of Brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010s
This article analyzes Brazilian documentaries from the last decade, investigating their narrative and visual strategies and relating them to emerging video activism practices. Referred to here as ‘documentary cine-activism’, this set of films belongs to the context of militant cinema, updated by co...
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This article analyzes Brazilian documentaries from the last decade, investigating their narrative and visual strategies and relating them to emerging video activism practices. Referred to here as ‘documentary cine-activism’, this set of films belongs to the context of militant cinema, updated by contemporary social activism and new image broadcasting technologies via the internet. It is divided into two trends: the first one resulting from the events of June 2013, which street demonstrations are elaborated imagetically, questions the political disputes that occurred through these images. The second trend refers to the developments of the aforementioned event, focusing on the student strikes of 2015 and the 2016 coup d'état, in which Workers’ Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff — in office since 2011, and reelected in 2014 — was ousted. The conclusion examines how new technologies are transforming militant cinema, emphasizing the individual perspectives and narrative approaches of political actors directly involved in the events. It explores the diverse ways in which these actors engage with and recollect archival images, contrasting their use with hegemonic media, thereby integrating them into an active political strategy.
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| spelling | doaj-art-77eb5bb0fcbc4716b3639f855f67ec302025-08-20T03:40:52ZengUniversidad Complutense de MadridRevista Teknokultura1549-22302025-03-01Avance en línea10.5209/tekn.97843A Panorama of Brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010sMárcio Zanetti Negrini0Giulianna Ronna Nogueira1Couto Giancarlo2Cristiane Freitas Gutfreind3University of SorocabaPontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do SulPontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do SulPontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul This article analyzes Brazilian documentaries from the last decade, investigating their narrative and visual strategies and relating them to emerging video activism practices. Referred to here as ‘documentary cine-activism’, this set of films belongs to the context of militant cinema, updated by contemporary social activism and new image broadcasting technologies via the internet. It is divided into two trends: the first one resulting from the events of June 2013, which street demonstrations are elaborated imagetically, questions the political disputes that occurred through these images. The second trend refers to the developments of the aforementioned event, focusing on the student strikes of 2015 and the 2016 coup d'état, in which Workers’ Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff — in office since 2011, and reelected in 2014 — was ousted. The conclusion examines how new technologies are transforming militant cinema, emphasizing the individual perspectives and narrative approaches of political actors directly involved in the events. It explores the diverse ways in which these actors engage with and recollect archival images, contrasting their use with hegemonic media, thereby integrating them into an active political strategy. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/97843Brazilian documentary filmsbroadcasting technologiesjune 2013militant cinemavideo-activism |
| spellingShingle | Márcio Zanetti Negrini Giulianna Ronna Nogueira Couto Giancarlo Cristiane Freitas Gutfreind A Panorama of Brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010s Revista Teknokultura Brazilian documentary films broadcasting technologies june 2013 militant cinema video-activism |
| title | A Panorama of Brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010s |
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| title_short | A Panorama of Brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010s |
| title_sort | panorama of brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010s |
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