Microphones, Cameras, Archives

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Date and Time: May 12, 2021 | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

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As part of our series Microphones, Cameras, Archives, we invite you to a presentation by Professor Gonzalo Aguilar entitled “Madame Sata: Fantasmas y Espectros en el Archivo”. Madame Satã (2002), directed by Karim Ainouz, is a portrait of João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976), a drag queen born into a family of former slaves, a convict, a father and a legendary capoeira street fighter that often defied police officials.
You may access the film through this link (please remember to download both files to ensure subtitle playback):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CIEcV7F-rkvQ3z0mZxVP2828uBTtNn8q?usp=sharing

Professor Gonzalo Aguilar (Universidad de Buenos Aires) has written extensively on Latin American film and Brazilian literature. His groundbreaking work Otros Mundos: Un Ensayo sobre el Nuevo Cine Argentino (2005) theorized the changes introduced by a new generation of filmmakers, reading their work as concrete images of broader social transformations related to globalization. His next book, Más allá del Pueblo: Imágenes, Indicios y Políticas del Cine, expanded the scope of his work to the cinema of other countries, and studied the problematic legacy of political films from the 60’s and 70’s and their conception of history. This year he curated the exhibition "Madalena Schwartz: As metamorfoses - Travestis e transformistas na SP dos anos 70", in the Casa Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro. His work follows Walter Benjamin's close attention to the relationship between media and thought, and studies images as one of the most powerful and contested realms of life today.

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