Notes on Scientific Cinema: Arlindo Machado
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2022.189813Keywords:
Scientific cinema, Pre-cinemas, Invention, Medical images, AstronomyAbstract
Arlindo Machado made films and wrote articles about a type of cinema scarcely debated by the communicational field called “scientific cinema”. This article discusses his ideas on the subject, articulating concepts and historiography about the origins of cinema by using his writings on pre- and post-cinema. The dialogue with his works suggests questions about the invisibility of scientific cinema, pre-cinematic machines, and their relationship with science, as well as Brazilian cases of scientific films. Based on the elements discussed, we speculate on the possibility of composing a language that goes beyond the mere recording of images. At the end, we discuss the aesthetics and ethics of the attractive realism of medical images and their repulsive aspects, as well as the integral simulacrum of today’s astronomical images.
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