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A comunidade face aos poderes: resistência e reflexividade social
Authors: José da Silva Ribeiro
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The community against the powers: resistance and social reflexivity. As reference we take 3 films where people react against established powers, resisting for decades, providing and solidifying building up processes of community and local culture. The first film Tous au Larzac! (2011) of Christian Rouaud, documents the contemporary history of farmers that have fought for a decade (1971-81) for the owning of the land and against expropriation, in result of a decision of the French Ministry of Defence of expanding the military base of the region of Larzac, in the south of France, and the building up process of a community around the fight and resistance. The second film,Finding our way (2011), of Giovanni Attili and Leonie Sandercock, acompained by a powerful hipermediatic device of unavoidable pedagogic value and of social reflexivity, tells the story of robbed people from their territory and the conflicts not yet worked out of the indigenous people, the industry and the Canadian government in the British Columbia. The third movie, Boe Ero Kurireu – The Bororo big tradition (2007) of Paulinho Ecerae Kadojeba proposes to register the bororo culture from its own culture. The film is a detailed ethnographic description and a careful work about sonorities and comment, as well as the confront with the representations of Globo TV in reference of the ethical questions of the research. The three films constitute a process of social reflexivity and an excellent place of observation and analysis of the confront between the logic of reciprocity of the cinematographic production and the local communities with interest in industry, army, state, of the hegemonic means of political and economic power and of symbolic local representations. We have tried to draw a few lines of comparability between the cinematographic production processes, the resistance of the local culture and social reflexivity.