The Personal is Political (o pessoal é político) é um dos slogans feministas mais célebres dos anos 1970. É uma afirmação de que os problemas individuais das mulheres são resultado de sua classe política oprimida (Bonnie J.). É também este slogan que fará Bell Hooks nos propor a questionar nossa própria existência e percurso relacionando-os à história, e tendo no discurso de Sojourner Truth no The Ohio Women’s Rights Convention (Conferência dos direitos dasmulheres de Ohio), em 1851, um marco no pensamento afrofeminista... a estética é política.
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Through each frame, Lilis Soares’ expert lens mesmerized the jury. The richness of the black and white images, combined with the intricate and intimate camerawork of both the performances and natural landscape, elevated this folkloric tale to an intoxicating, visual experience. The World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Cinematography goes to Lílis Soares, Mami Wata.
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With two short films and a feature film at the Tiradentes Film Festival 2020, the presence of a young photographer highlights a path of no return and the urgency of looking carefully at a cinema that goes through vital processes, of formation and political construction.
The projects in which she participates receive the treatment of rigorous research, on an old issue, but still little faced: after all, how to film black bodies? We find the strength of a perspective committed to the decolonization of making cinema, and we celebrate in his work the reception of an ethical issue unavoidable to our time. What she has done, articulated in collectives, such as the Collective of Photography Directors of Brazil, to which the jury extends its tribute, is a cinema that assumes for itself the responsibility of facing not only a dispute of narratives, but the agency of a black sensitivity.
Because we know that the skin is our first lens, and for the ways in which it brings out new images, we reward a photographer in full activity, for the autonomy of a cinematic making that will cross the times.
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Black Female Spectators
When thinking about black female spectators, I remember being punished as a child for staring, for those hard intense direct looks children would give grown-ups, looks that were seen as confrontational, as gestures of resistance, challenges to authority. The "gaze" has always been political in my life. Imagine the terror felt by the child who has come to understand through repeated punishments that one's gaze can be dangerous. The child who has learned so well to look the other way when necessary. Yet, when punished, the child is told by parents, "Look at me when I talk to you." Only, the child is afraid to look. Afraid to look, but fascinated by the gaze. There is power in looking.
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