À margem do documentário: imagens, trajetórias e sentidos na rede de uma produção audiovisual na periferia de Santarém/PA

Abstract

Without any support, the audiovisual independent producer Bandeira Filmes, from the city of Santarém in Pará, produced in 2018 it's first short documentary: The margin (A margem). Since the beginning of that year, the people living in the Uruará neighbourhood (urban riverine and peripherycal region) suffered with the start of the urban interventions by PAC 1. This is the history investigated in the film. This Ethnography assumes this film as central object of research and is based on Alfred Gell's (1988) theory on Anthropology of Art, understanding Art objects as social agents. The Anthropologist stated that these objects are artifacts capable of mediating complex social relationships. Methodologically structured since 2017, the research sought after some of the strings in this web of complex intentionalities that the documentary, as Art object, activates. In the field research the main tools were interviews, participative observation and film analyses with the film producers, the filmic device (AUMONT, 2002) and the people/characters of the narrative. One can understand that the documentary while ethnographic object of analyses generates multiple possibilities of social, cultural, aesthetic and political mobilisation. The title is not random, it places the documentary spatially and ideologically on the margins of the Tapajós River and on the margins of the Capitalist-Colonialist System.