Words, Images, Gestures: A Dialogue Between João Silvério Trevisan’s Documentary Contestação (1969) and Walter Benjamin’s Theses On the Concept of History
Words, Images, Gestures: A Dialogue Between João Silvério Trevisan’s Documentary Contestação (1969) and Walter Benjamin’s Theses On the Concept of History

Summary/Abstract: Cinema builds a diversity of important narratives to discuss culture and language.Many of them deal with authoritarian states and their antithesis, rebellion, resistance. Thisstudy analyzes the film narrative Contestação (1969), by João Silvério Trevisan, an experimentaldocumentary on the protagonism of students against the authoritarianism and violence ofdictatorships, from which we will analyze the narrative itself, as well as its composition madefrom the reuse of media material, film archives and journalism, and music as an element of thefilmic montage; it analyzes this intermedia process between word and image. This analysis willbe based on Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Concept of History, in order to observe how thefilm formulates temporalities, the perception of events, and the construction of history. For theanalysis of the composition of the film, concepts from theorists such as Eisenstein, Bakhtin,Kristeva, and Intermediality theorists, among others, were used.

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