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- Abstract:
- This article presents ‘Estamira,’ a plural film in several aspects. It subtly works with madness, but in a philosophical and artistic way. It shows a marginalized character who creates a different world through art and garbage. This documentary/film/work of art operates as a "diary", in which the spectator is driven to Estamira's life and her magical, poetic and realistic speech, characterized by a very particular cosmology of living. She is authentic, unique and able to reveal the "true" guided by the hands of the film director.
- Este artigo apresenta "Estamira", um filme plural em vários aspectos. Sutilmente trabalha com loucura, mas de maneira filosófica e artística. Mostra um personagem marginalizado que cria um mundo diferente através da arte e do lixo. Este documentário / filme / obra artística funciona como um "diário", no qual o espectador é levado à vida de Estamira e a seu discurso mágico, poético e realista, caracterizado por uma cosmologia muito particular da vida. Ela é autêntica, única e capaz de revelar o "verdadeiro" guiado pelas mãos do diretor de cinema.
Citation
Santos, Darlan, and Fux, Jacques,
"'Estamira': Art as narration of the other's memory"
(2013).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/aacb-7015
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …