Reflexões em torno de um documentário: Nome de Guerra, a Viagem de Junqueiro

• Autores: Henrique Manuel Pereira, Marta Reis
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 711-716
• Idioma: portugués
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• Resumen

  • Guerra Junqueiro (1850 – 1923) was a multifaceted persona and nom de guerre. Above all poet, Guerra Junqueirowas also politician, art collector, farmer/winemaker, scientist and philosopher.Whatever epoch no other Portuguese persona in literary history is similar to him on the welcoming point of view.Nonetheless Guerra Junqueiro is today part of a list of victims of a collective amnesia.Is documentary the best strategy to “resurrect the dead” or at least to rehabilitate the figure, giving it back the imageof a whole body or depth of field? And what kind of documentary?Will over 100 ours of footage and 30 hours of interviews, with reputed international thinkers, admirers, family membersand fellow Guerra Junqueiro countryman, and an extensive gathering of film, photographic, sound, bibliographicaland iconographical archive, made inside and outside Portugal; be enough to this resurrection process?What aspects are important to privilege? According to what point of view? So that the film says what the investigatorwanted to be said and so that the audience feels comfortably committed to the narrative. What is the soundtrackrole? And what music to use? What is the balance between the inevitable handling of the resources and truth offacts?Nome de Guerra, a Viagem de Junqueiro is a 90-minute feature film documentary that covers the life andcontroversies, the work, thought and cultural legacy of the poet Guerra Junqueiro.