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.

Keywords: Cinema | School | Archive | Favela do Vidigal | Philosophy and Memory | Cinematheque of MAM-Rio