This documentary film follows the group NoiseFold as they rehearse and perform their unique style of interactive video art before an enthusiastic audience. Originally hailing from the vibrant art community in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founders David Stout and Cory Metcalf return home to prepare for a special performance along with the addition of collaborator and cellist, Frances-Marie Uitti. Shot in black and white, the film aesthetically borrows from early cinema and incorporates a blend of cinéma-vérité and direct cinema styles for the purposes of creating a film that is both visually and sonically rich.

O presente trabalho investiga, a partir da sociologia do cinema, uma seleção de filmes documentais do cineasta americano Frederick Wiseman (1930-). Trata-se de um documentarista com grande importância para o que ficou conhecido como cinema direto ou cinema vérité, uma corrente cinematográfica que, através de determinados artifícios formais ausência de narração, entrevistas ou intertítulos , causa uma forte impressão de realismo. Com isso, pretendi não apenas melhor compreender a produção deste cineasta como também refletir sobre algumas das construções narrativas presentes em seus filmes e, a partir disso, sobre algumas das relações entre cinema e realismo. Buscando trazer para a discussão este diretor pouco comentado na literatura brasileira, analisei aqui oito de seus filmes, distribuídos em três blocos temáticos: hospitais, exército e lazer. A análise se deu através de uma sociologia do cinema que compreende que a análise deve partir do próprio filme, compreendendo-o enquanto obra e enquanto a principal fonte de informação. No caso deste trabalho, a maneira pela qual Wiseman construiu imagens e narrativas ao longo de sua filmografia é interpretada enquanto uma resposta a uma das questões que permeia o cinema documental, qual seja, de como retratar e detalhar o real. Tendo isso em mente, podemos dizer que a câmera observadora não apenas observa. Ela narra, ela fala e ela argumenta. / In this thesis I investigate, by means of a sociology of cinema, a selection of films by the American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (1930-). Being a documentary filmmaker of great importance for what became known as direct cinema or cinema vérité, a cinematographic trend that, by means of certain formal devices the absence of voice-overs, interviews of inter-titles leads to a strong impression of realism. Thereby, I intended to not only better comprehend Wisemans production as well as some considerations on the narrative constructions in his films, but also to consider some of the relations between cinema and realism. While I aim to bring forth a debate regarding this rarely discussed director within the Brazilian literature, I here analyze eight of his films, divided in three different themed topics: hospitals, military and leisure. The analysis was done by means of a sociology of cinema, which understands that the investigation must begin with the film itself, understanding it as a piece of work and as the main source of information. In this thesis, the manner by which Wiseman crafted images and narrative over the course of his filmography is seen as an answer to one of the questions that permeates documentary cinema, namely, on how to depict and detail reality. With this in mind, we can say that the observational camera does not merely observe. It narrates, it speaks and it argues.

O presente trabalho investiga, a partir da sociologia do cinema, uma seleção de filmes documentais do cineasta americano Frederick Wiseman (1930-). Trata-se de um documentarista com grande importância para o que ficou conhecido como cinema direto ou cinema vérité, uma corrente cinematográfica que, através de determinados artifícios formais ausência de narração, entrevistas ou intertítulos , causa uma forte impressão de realismo. Com isso, pretendi não apenas melhor compreender a produção deste cineasta como também refletir sobre algumas das construções narrativas presentes em seus filmes e, a partir disso, sobre algumas das relações entre cinema e realismo. Buscando trazer para a discussão este diretor pouco comentado na literatura brasileira, analisei aqui oito de seus filmes, distribuídos em três blocos temáticos: hospitais, exército e lazer. A análise se deu através de uma sociologia do cinema que compreende que a análise deve partir do próprio filme, compreendendo-o enquanto obra e enquanto a principal fonte de informação. No caso deste trabalho, a maneira pela qual Wiseman construiu imagens e narrativas ao longo de sua filmografia é interpretada enquanto uma resposta a uma das questões que permeia o cinema documental, qual seja, de como retratar e detalhar o real. Tendo isso em mente, podemos dizer que a câmera observadora não apenas observa. Ela narra, ela fala e ela argumenta. / In this thesis I investigate, by means of a sociology of cinema, a selection of films by the American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (1930-). Being a documentary filmmaker of great importance for what became known as direct cinema or cinema vérité, a cinematographic trend that, by means of certain formal devices the absence of voice-overs, interviews of inter-titles leads to a strong impression of realism. Thereby, I intended to not only better comprehend Wisemans production as well as some considerations on the narrative constructions in his films, but also to consider some of the relations between cinema and realism. While I aim to bring forth a debate regarding this rarely discussed director within the Brazilian literature, I here analyze eight of his films, divided in three different themed topics: hospitals, military and leisure. The analysis was done by means of a sociology of cinema, which understands that the investigation must begin with the film itself, understanding it as a piece of work and as the main source of information. In this thesis, the manner by which Wiseman crafted images and narrative over the course of his filmography is seen as an answer to one of the questions that permeates documentary cinema, namely, on how to depict and detail reality. With this in mind, we can say that the observational camera does not merely observe. It narrates, it speaks and it argues.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:10:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Irislane Mendes Pereira.pdf: 1738149 bytes, checksum: 56b495fdcbe0d5ab3fcc3a6285453694 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-13 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis aims at the study of the relations between the documentarian and his character. More specifically, it analyses the dialogue that is established between both parts. Underpinned by theories and concepts by Brazilian and foreign documentary genre scholars Fernão Pessoa Ramos, Jean-Claude Bernardet and Bill Nichols , this work also examines the matter of the production of the documentary s truth, as such a meeting intermediated by the camera and proposed to a spectatorial reading could guarantee it. Inseparable from this first interrogation, there is a second one that refers to the witnessing subject s freedom and to the ethics of these exchanges. The selection of the corpus privileged those films which characters seem to have their singularities preserved in the situation of interaction in which they are engaged. Parallel to that and opportunely, a brief history of the documentary in Brazil, under the influx of Italian neorealism, direct cinema and cinema vérité, which molded in it its most remarkable features, is presented. Methodologically, it is a documental and bibliographical research. As a result, it is possible to assure that the corpus analysis especially of these two important examples of this genre, Viramundo (1965), by Geraldo Sarno, and Jogo de Cena (2007), by Eduardo Coutinho has evinced different models that present actors have to convey with words / A presente dissertação tem por objetivo o estudo das relações entre o documentarista e sua personagem. Trata-se, mais especificamente, de analisar o diálogo estabelecido entre ambas as partes. Apoiando-se nas teorias e conceitos de estudiosos brasileiros e estrangeiros do gênero documentário Fernão Pessoa Ramos, Jean-Claude Bernardet e Bill Nichols , examina também a questão da produção da verdade do documentário, tal como este encontro intermediado pela câmera e proposto a uma leitura espectatorial a poderia garantir. Inseparável desta primeira interrogação, uma segunda refere-se à liberdade do sujeito depoente e à ética destas trocas. A seleção do corpus privilegiou aqueles filmes cujas personagens parecem ter suas singularidades preservadas na situação de interação em que estão engajadas. Em paralelo e por oportuno, apresenta-se também uma pequena historia do documentário no Brasil, sob os influxos do neo-realismo italiano, do cinema direto e do cinema verdade ou cinéma verité, que lhe imprimiram seus traços mais marcantes. Metodologicamente, trata-se de uma pesquisa documental e bibliográfica. Como resultado, pode-se afiançar que a análise do corpus notadamente destes importantes exemplares do gênero que são Viramundo (1965) de Geraldo Sarno e de Jogo de Cena (2007) de Eduardo Coutinho evidenciou diferentes modelos de condução da palavra pelos atores em presença

Submitted by Leonardo Cavalcante (leo.ocavalcante@gmail.com) on 2018-04-12T12:04:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 3674897 bytes, checksum: d8194a62115dc46fb2133ad516520638 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-12T12:04:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 3674897 bytes, checksum: d8194a62115dc46fb2133ad516520638 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-17 / In this research, we seek to comprehend how occurs the arrival and difusion of an approach mode of the real, the so called direct cinema, with its sound record stylistic synchronous to the image, on the documentary from Paraiba, from the late 70s. This style stood out for giving people voice so they could talk about themselves to the cinema, revealing, this way, a language sensitive to the social matters, to the political problems, to the gender and identity matters, beside the many cultural manifestations. We discussed the role of UFPB's Cinematographic Documentation Core (NUDOC) as a formation agent of new directors, from the exchange with Paris Varan Association (Ateliers Varan), promoting internships in direct cinema in João Pessoa and Paris, thus providing a technical, cultural and theorical baggage consistents to the new directors. On the scope of our research, we conceptualized, initially, the documentary against its stylistic ways and delimitations of a representation field. Right next, we discussed the direct cinema, its approaching strategies of the real and its precursors in Paraiba, the consolidation of a style (the expositive mode on the paraibano documentary), NUDOC's role on the difusion of the direct and finally the stylistic of the direct in Paraiba: from the 80s until nowadays. For this, we based our analysis on the main theories of the documentary study, on the productions study about the Super-8 mm and the direct cinema made in Paraiba, on the interviews and notes produced along the research, discussing the language, the technology, the stylistic resources used in its historical context. These productions contribute with the identity formation of the local cinema, influencing new generations of directors. Lastly, we will demonstrate our considerations about the stylistic procedures used in the direct e, this way, contribute with a new look about the study of the audio-visual narratives apllied to the making of the documentary in Paraiba. / Nesta pesquisa, buscamos compreender como se dá a chegada e difusão de um modo de abordagem do real no documentário paraibano, a partir do final dos anos 1970, o chamado Cinema Direto, com sua estilística de registro de som sincrônico à imagem. Esse estilo se destacou por dar voz às pessoas para falarem de si próprias para o cinema; revelando, desta forma, uma linguagem sensível às questões sociais, aos problemas políticos, às questões de gênero e de identidade, além das diversas manifestações culturais. Discutimos o papel do Núcleo de Documentação Cinematográfica da UFPB (NUDOC) como agente de formação de novos realizadores, a partir do intercâmbio com a Associação Varan, em Paris (Ateliers Varan), com a promoção de estágios em Cinema Direto em João Pessoa e Paris, fornecendo, assim, uma bagagem técnica, cultural e teórica consistentes aos novos realizadores. No escopo da nossa pesquisa, conceituamos, inicialmente, o documentário diante das suas maneiras estilísticas e delimitações de um campo de representação. Em seguida, discutimos o Cinema Direto, suas estratégias de abordagem do real e seus precursores na Paraíba, a consolidação de um estilo (o modo expositivo no documentário paraibano), o papel do NUDOC na difusão do Direto e, por fim, a estilística do Direto na Paraíba – dos anos 1980 aos dias atuais. Para isso, embasamos nossa análise nas principais teorias do estudo do documentário, nos estudos das produções sobre o Super-8 mm e o Cinema Direto realizado na Paraíba, nas entrevistas e anotações produzidas no decorrer da pesquisa, no debate sobre a linguagem, a tecnologia, os recursos estilísticos usados e seu contexto histórico. Estas produções colaboraram com a formação da identidade do cinema local, influenciando novas gerações de realizadores. Por fim, demonstramos nossas considerações acerca dos procedimentos estilísticos utilizados no Direto, na tentativa de contribuir com um novo olhar sobre o estudo das narrativas audiovisuais aplicadas à realização do documentário na Paraíba.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaTPMC_DISSERT.pdf: 1347609 bytes, checksum: 09687f612d26a6b88d4b61ce1a877abf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-04 / This dissertation presents a reflection upon the notion of event, inspired by the contributions of Edgar Morin to the thinking of the present. The research analysis this notion particularly from the experience of the documentary titled Sangue do Barro, which was the winner of the 4th edition of DOCTV, in the federal state of Rio Grande do Norte in 2008. The study focuses on how facts from daily life can be approached by the documentary making process, and how in this process the questioning of facts leads to the questioning of social realities. In this perspective, through the illustrative case of Sangue do Barro, the research develops the hypothesis of how in the documentary process, which aims at revealing a particular history, is the revealing of the particular able to reflect the universal. The dissertation thus assumes this situation as precisely the configuration of the sociology of present, proposed by Edgar Morin. Furthermore, along with the theoretical premises of the sociology of the present, the research performs a brief historical analysis of documentary practices, Brazilian audiovisual public policies, and it also discusses the technical contributions of several contemporary film makers and contemporary thinkers, such as Jean Rouch, Bill Nichols, Ismail Xavier, Consuelo Lins, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Serroy, Michel Foucault, Alfredo Pena-Vega, Nicole Lapierre, etc / A presente disserta??o de mestrado consiste na reflex?o sobre a no??o de acontecimento, ? luz do pensamento de Edgar Morin, particularmente refletida na experi?ncia do document?rio Sangue do Barro, vencedor da quarta edi??o do DOCTV, no Rio Grande do Norte, em 2008. Neste sentido, a pesquisa extrai do fazer documental o foco nas quest?es cotidianas, de onde se parte dos fatos para se questionar as realidades sociais. Assim, no exemplo de Sangue do Barro, a disserta??o analisa a hip?tese de como o procedimento documental, com foco em revelar uma hist?ria particular, pode de fato fazer com esse particular reflita o universal, o que finda por configurar-se em uma sociologia do presente, conforme proposta por Edgar Morin. A presente pesquisa ? complementada ainda por uma breve an?lise contextual do cinema verdade, das pol?ticas p?blicas de audiovisual e difus?o do document?rio no Brasil. Al?m dos pressupostos te?ricos da sociologia do presente de Edgar Morin, s?o abordadas ainda as contribui??es te?ricas para a compreens?o do g?nero document?rio de Jean Rouch, Bill Nichols, Ismail Xavier, Consuelo Lins, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Serroy, Michel Foucault, Alfredo Pena-Vega, Nicole Lapierre, entre outros

Tales of My Cities is a poetic observation of life in the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, India. The documentary is an intimate first-person exploration of the culture in these cities. The viewer should find a surreal peace in the life and atmosphere of the cities where life extends from centuries old traditions to the current hi-tech pace of life.

Le présent mémoire définira ce qu’on entend par modernité et postmodernité, tout en juxtaposant ces concepts philosophiques au cinéma pratiqué par le documentariste Pierre Perrault. Les modernistes influencés par les Lumières ont toujours considéré les progrès scientifiques comme des avancées nécessaires à l’atteinte d’une béatitude universelle. Pour eux, le salut des sociétés nécessite un passage du côté de la science, du rationalisme. Le problème avec une telle démarche est que tout discours qui se dissocie de la rationalité est immédiatement annihilé au profit d’une (sur)dominance du progrès. Il ne s’agit pas de dire que la modernité est à proscrire – loin de là! –, mais il serait temps d’envisager une remise en question de certaines de ses caractéristiques. La postmodernité, réflexion critique popularisée par Jean-François Lyotard, s’évertue à trouver des pistes de solution pour pallier à cette problématique. Elle est une critique de la domination exagérée des sciences dans la compréhension de notre monde. Il existe pourtant d’autres façons de l’appréhender, tels les mythes et les croyances. Ces récits irrationnels cachent souvent en eux des valeurs importantes (qu’elles soient d’ordre moral, écologique ou spirituel). Or, l’œuvre de Perrault regorge de ces petites histoires communautaires. Les deux films choisis pour notre travail – Le goût de la farine (1977) et Le pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (1980) – en sont l’exemple prégnant. Chacun d’eux présente des traditions autochtones (celles des Innus) opposées à la dictature du progrès. Et cette même opposition permet au réalisateur de forger un discours critique sur une modernité prête à tout pour effacer les coutumes uniques. Le cinéaste agit ainsi en postmoderniste, offrant une réflexion salutaire sur les pires excès véhiculés par les tenants du progrès. / This dissertation, juxtaposing modernity and postmodernity to Pierre Perrault’s documentary movies, will define what we understand from those philosophic concepts. Influenced with Les Lumières, modernists have always considered necessary to put forward scientific technology progress to reach universal beatitude. For them, science is the key to society’s salute and rationalism. The problem with this process is that all thinking dissociating from rationality brings its immediate annihilation by progress and “over-progress” domination. Far from us to say that modernity needs to be forbidden but maybe it would be time to call into question some of these concepts. Popularized by Jean-François Lyotard, postmodernity criticizes the exaggerated science domination into trying to understand our world and wants to find solutions to counter the problem. Yet, there are other ways to apprehend this world of ours, like myths and believes. These irrational stories often reveal important moral, ecologic or spiritual values. The works of Perrault abound with community stories to refer to and we have chosen two pictures that are obvious examples. Le goût de la farine (1977) and Le pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (1980) present Innus’ traditions opposed to progress dictatorship. This same opposition allows the movie director to create a critical thinking about this modernity (in brief, a postmodernist thinking).

Les mythes américains génèrent des symboles et des stéréotypes fréquents dans l’imaginaire collectif. Leur usage dans la littérature québécoise exclut toute idéologie, privilégiant l’acte fondateur d’une nouvelle mythologie. Les mythes québécois se sont d’abord distingués de ceux de l’Amérique. Ils ont porté un regard critique sur la globalisation que peut susciter le territoire américain. En élaborant leur littérature nationale, les auteurs québécois de la Révolution tranquille ont formulé d’autres pistes interprétatives autour des mythes américains. L’américanité offre des perspectives anthropologiques fluides à l’adaptation du mythe au cinéma et en littérature. Le mythe tel que le définit Roland Barthes permet une interprétation contemporaine de chaque mythe québécois présenté dans cette étude. Le corpus est donc composé d’œuvres québécoises et étatsuniennes, de films de Denys Arcand et Clint Eastwood, de romans et textes argumentatifs de notre auteur tranquille référent, Jacques Godbout mais aussi de Jacques Poulin, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Antonine Maillet, Anne Hébert, Jack Kerouac. / American myths generate recurring symbols and stereotypes in the collective imagination. In Quebec literature, the use of these myths ignores ideology, favouring the founding act of a new mythology. Quebec myths firstly distinguished themselves from American myths, carrying with them a critical perspective on the globalising process driven by the American territory. In developing their national literature, Quebec authors from the Quiet Revolution shaped new interpretations of American myths. Americanness offers changing anthropological perspectives for the adaptation of myths into film and literature. The myth as Roland Barthes defines it, enables a contemporary interpretation of each Quebec myth you can find in this study. Thus, the corpus in my dissertation is made up of Quebec and American works, movies directed by Denys Arcand and Clint Eastwood and novels or argumentative essays by the quiet author who is the subject of this dissertation, Jacques Godbout as well as Jacques Poulin, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Antonine Maillet, Anne Hébert and Jack Kerouac.

O presente trabalho busca analisar como certos filmes do modo de representação observacional são capazes de incitar no espectador a impressão de vislumbrar a própria realidade na tela, dividindo-se a pesquisa em dois períodos e contextos particulares: nos anos 60, quando surgiu o Cinema Direto nos Estados Unidos em torno da Drew Associates, e nos anos 2000 a partir de dois documentários brasileiros. / This work analyzes as certain films of the observational mode of representation are capable of provoking in the spectator the impression of glimpsing the reality itself on the screen in two periods and particular contexts: in the 60s, when the Direct Cinema appeared in the United States around the Drew Associates, and in the years 2000, through two Brazilian documentaries.