A autoria no cinema contemporâneo brasileiro: o caso de o som ao redor

Abstract

Contemporary Brazilian cinema is filled with independent films that break the rules of industrial cinema. Despite of the difficulties of categorising this production due to its form and content diversity, it is clear that from 2010 onwards tjere is a different film circuit, legitimated by the critics and film festivals, thus giving rise to another notion of authorship for the contemporary cinema. This research intends to analyze through the film O Som ao Redor (2012) by the film-maker Kleber Mendonça Filho one of the forms that the author-function, a term I leant from Michel Foucault, presents itself currently in the Brazilian cinematographic production. Within this trend, we will see that authorship still requires a certain political stance of deconstruction of traditional, or even industrials, filmmaking models, existing and operating in a updated, contemporary way, within the tension between trend and quality, according to Walter Benjamin - in this case, authorial trend and comercial trend.