Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 11 | N° 2

Ética y Filosofía

Cinema in the Vidigal School

A philosophy of struggle and resistance in the favela

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The article addresses a reflection steeped in the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agambem that arises from a daily school practice articulated with the community, the cinema, the film library and the university. The Djalma School of Cinema/CINEAD investigated, with its filmmaking action shared between the teacher and students, the history of the Vidigal favela, Rio de Janeiro. From this gesture, an entire field of research is constituted, and with it the discovery and restoration of, in partnership with the Cinemateca of MAM-Rio, of Super-8 images, photographs, and cassette tapes about the resistance of the residents of the Vidigal favela against their removal to the Antares/Santa Cruz Housing Complex in 1977/78. The article develops part of this research’s trajectory with the development of a memory of the favela’s struggle and resistance in the school.

This article is, for the time being, only available in Portuguese: Cinema na Escola do Vidigal

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Cinema in the Vidigal School

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