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The girl chewing gum de John Smith: documento e ficção
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Este artigo analisa a curta-metragem The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, 1976) posicionando-a no contexto da vertente experimental que lhe está na origem, associada ao cinema estrutural. O filme constitui, em primeiro lugar, um documento do olhar do realizador perante a realidade do banal dia-a-dia, mas é muito mais do que isso porque a voz-off que o realizador coloca sobre os planos filmados altera de forma disruptiva o material pro-fílmico. O “território” do cinema é, portanto, desconstruído de modo irónico e radical. Em que medida a imagem, enquanto documento do real, é transfigurada e “ficcionada” pelo olhar (e pela voz) do realizador? Todo o cinema o faz, certamente, mas John Smith põe a nu este “território” específico do cinema, numa atitude reflexiva e desconstrutora que leva o espectador de volta à pergunta mais antiga e essencial: o que é o cinema?
This article analyses the short film The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, 1976) placing it in the context of experimental trend to which it is associated, linked to the structural cinema. The film is, in first place, a document of the director's gaze about the reality of common day-to-day situations, but it's much more than that because the voice that the director overlaps on the shot modify, in a disruptive way, the pro-filmic material. The "territory" of the film is thus deconstructed in ironic and radical way. To what extent is image, as a real document, transformed and "fictionalized" by the gaze (and voice) of the director? All cinema does that, certainly, but John Smith exposes this specific cinematic "territory", with a reflective and deconstructive attitude that takes viewers back to this oldest and essential question: what is cinema?
This article analyses the short film The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, 1976) placing it in the context of experimental trend to which it is associated, linked to the structural cinema. The film is, in first place, a document of the director's gaze about the reality of common day-to-day situations, but it's much more than that because the voice that the director overlaps on the shot modify, in a disruptive way, the pro-filmic material. The "territory" of the film is thus deconstructed in ironic and radical way. To what extent is image, as a real document, transformed and "fictionalized" by the gaze (and voice) of the director? All cinema does that, certainly, but John Smith exposes this specific cinematic "territory", with a reflective and deconstructive attitude that takes viewers back to this oldest and essential question: what is cinema?
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Cinema Experimentalismo Documentário Ficção Reflexividade Diegese Experimentalism Documentary Fiction Reflexivity Diegesis The girl chewing gum John Smith . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades
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The Girl Chewing Gum de John Smith: documento e ficção / Carlos Valente. - In: Cinema & território. - Funchal. ISSN 2183-7902. - N. 1 (2016), p. 106-115.
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Universidade da Madeira