Memento mori as rupturas e permanências dos nossos tempos

Abstract

Brazil shares an immemorial heritage with Latin America and other colonized countries: through a culture wrapped up in totalitarianism and historics of censorship, it gave birth to a trauma and amnesia in the memory of its people; a loss of reference in the passage of generations, which has become mild and susceptible to ideas that spread like viruses and manipulations of insurgent neo-fascist movements, which act in the most populous and vulnerable layers of society through misinformation and alteration of the narrative of the facts. The audiovisual production of this paper used the resources of image and sound to outline a philosophicel, cultural and socio-political reflection on the ruptures and permanences of the colonized memory, in the the learning areas of history, art and communication. The video set out to work the linear narration of a fictional world, that begins and ends in itself, and illustrate this world with the images and records that permeate reality, in public and private life, ordered non- linearly, in a way that creates an anachronic relation between the images of the past and the present. As the opposition between real and fiction, public and private, past and present is established, a timeless diegesis is created with what is said and what is seen, bringing to the surface the processes that history records and marks on culture, language and art. Memory does not belong only to the past, but it constantly permestes and influences the present of those who have it, and allows them to glimpse new possibilities of future