You won’t recognise the fruits for their taste

Arthur Omar and his films in the 1970s and 1980s

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.168248

Keywords:

Arthur Omar, anti-documentary, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Música Barroca Mineira

Abstract

This article examines part of the theoretical and artistic production that Arthur Omar created during the 1970s and 1980s. Beginning with general comments on his work, this texts locates his filmography in the Brazilian modern production scene and discusses his theory of “anti-documentary”, also verifying the affinities between this approach and the notion of “cinema of poetry”, by Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the end, it analyses Música Barroca Mineira, short movie from 1981, which adresses what Omar has called “baroque civilization” and demonstrates how a movie could incorporate in its own tessitura the characteristics of its object.

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Author Biography

  • Natalia Belasalma de Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brasil

    Natalia Belasalma é pesquisadora e montadora. Obteve o título de mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais da Universidade de São Paulo com pesquisa sobre o cinema de Arthur Omar. Montadora da equipe de videodocumentário da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, atua também como pesquisadora e documentarista na Companhia do Latão.

Published

2020-04-30

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Articles

How to Cite

Oliveira, N. B. de. (2020). You won’t recognise the fruits for their taste: Arthur Omar and his films in the 1970s and 1980s. ARS, 18(38), 43-77. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.168248