Shared authorship: cinema, occupation, and the city

Abstract

The starting point of my approach to participatory and collaborative forms in audiovisual authorship is the analysis of the films [projetotorresgemeas] (2011) and Novo Apocalipse Recife (2015). These works emerge from an engagement of their authors in the struggle for the right to the city. Such social disposition uses, in the city of Recife, cinema as a tool for the production of collective knowledge. By associating militant gestures of social movements with the films' forms of organization and aesthetic-narrative expressions, I use the concepts of multitude (Hardt and Negri, 2014) and right to the city (Harvey, 2012) to build a reflection on activist cinema and temporary urban communes, taking as an example the political interventions of the Occupy Estelita Movement and its initiatives for the democratization of urban planning.