Anchorage and critical circulation in the re-elaboration of public space in Terremoto santo

Abstract

This article analyzes the interpretations of the short film Holy tremor (Terremoto santo, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, 2017) throughout its several spheres of reception — such as film festivals, institutionalized critiques, social networks, and the narrative from the production team itself, confronted many times with certain ways of looking at the film. We thus reflect on how this movie anchors itself to its circulation due to its critical complex, by re-elaborating its possible interpretations, expanding its public diffusion space and reassembling the narratives formed and left available to the viewer at the moment its deliberation.