Ruínas da Memória: o cinema documental como testemunho de um tempo esquecido

• Autores: João Carrola Gomes, Joana Bastos Malheiro
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 1064-1069
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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• Resumen

  • The ruins are a reflection of the course of time through the creation of man. When we perceive them, we can eithercontemplate a ruskinian object or decode a historical, anthropological or social document.For Pierre Nora, it’s nowadays required to stimulate the collective consciousness through an “obligation to remind.”This plea to the global society has had response in several ways, leading filmmakers and architects, among others,to return to places of a forgotten past – places that nowadays are no more than physical remains under the perpetualaction of time, deprived of life or function.The documentaries “Pare, Escute, Olhe” by Jorge Pelicano and “Ruínas” by Manuel Mozos represent precisely away of remembering what, in this perspective, matters analyzing. The view of these filmmakers not only recorded onfilm the ruins of many pasts, but also shaped a manifesto that reacts against oblivion.They guide us through ruins of memory like the Tua railway or the former Monsanto Panoramic Restaurant, invitingthe society to participate in the consolidation of a collective identity by the exercise of remembering through thenarrative, the sound and the image. Their protagonists ceased to inhabit them a long time ago, but they left behindmaterial evidence that enables us to reconstruct inside our imagination fragments of the past that we will use inbuilding the future