Clube de cinema de Sergipe: um projeto civilizatório em tempos de barbárie (1950 - 1969)

Abstract

The formation of Cineclubs is a practice of meetings of people who have in common the appreciation for the exhibition of films. In Brazil, several meetings were important both in promoting film works and in building a culture of cinema. Throughout the 20th century, a period of development of cinema as a technique and as an art, as well as the development of a spectator public that mediated their readings of the word through cinema, film clubs were fertile spaces for problematization and reflection on the Brazilian social reality. Little has been written about film clubs in Sergipe, mainly in view of the relationship between memory and history and a rescue of the participation of the members, how they, had access to films, how these works came to Sergipe, what difficulties the members of the Clube de Cinema de Sergipe (CCS) faced during the transition from democracy from the governments of the Populist Republic on the 1960s to the military regime of 1964 until the beginning of the 1970s. The central objective of this research is to understand the trajectory of the CCS in the face of the rescue of memory and its civilizing construction. In this sense, we seek to understand cinema as an emblem of modernity, identify the role of cinematographic art in Sergipe between civilization and barbarism and visualize the cultural practices of civilizing resistance through the CCS narrators. The Sergipe Film Club emerges as a civilizing agent of Sergipe society, in particular Aracaju, from its very functioning as a meeting of people with a common goal that would be to watch film screenings and a place of paramount importance for the experience of the debate about film art. Based on the concepts of civilization and barbarism, this work seeks to deal with documentary sources from the CCS, from Sergipe periodicals of the time addition to the memorial testimonies of its members, trying to draw a historical overview of their social insertion in Sergipe and their tensioning actions political.