Nican mopohua: o espaço-tempo-devaneio na escrita do cinema

Abstract

This thesis was developed from the process of creating a film entitled Guadalupe and from the proposal to recover the narrative experience and the aesthetic dimension of academic work against the impoverishment of experience and the disappearance of the essentially human ability to narrate, pointed out by Walter Benjamin as characteristic of modernity. Through the movement of the film's conception, I sought the condition of cinema writing, its own place and time of creation supported by the thought of philosophers and image historians such as Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi- Huberman. The expression nican mopohua, which in the Nahuatl language means “here it is told” or “here it is narrated”, also names the famous account of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Christian deity that represents an intersection with another deity worshiped by the indigenous peoples of pre-hispanic Mexico: Tonantzin. Guadalupe-Tonantzin is a synthesis image through which I defend the thesis that cinema writing takes place in the open space-time-reverie between the experience of the gaze, the gesture and awakening. What this thesis seeks is the writing of images through the openings, through the deviations, voids and misplacements and that, through poetics, makes possible the writing of cinema and research in Education as ways of telling stories and, thus, overcoming the emptiness of experience. This is a challenge that is established in the ethical and aesthetic field in which writing is not only a matter of survival, but also and mainly as a need to reenchant the world. Research writing transited through spaces of reflexivity provided by the practice of surrealist ethnography as a research methodology and the exercise of surrealization of research writing as proposed by Denise Bussoletti, in which the surrealist-inspired montage in associationwith the Benjaminian perspective of writing history emerges as an organizing principle of writing and an epistemic foundation.