“We’re filming on the way”

Filmmaking as a cinéfille on the road in L. A. Tea Time

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https://doi.org/10.34024/s7m06n78

Palavras-chave:

road movie, cinéfille, Miranda July, Chantal Akerman

Resumo

Partindo do Quebeque, a sua terra natal, em direção às paisagens quentes do oeste dos E.U.A., Sophie Bédard Marcotte e sua diretora de fotografia, Isabelle Stachtchenko, rumam a Los Angeles com o objetivo de encontrarem a realizadora Miranda July e pedir-lhe conselhos sobre como ganhar a vida a filmar. Motéis, rednecks, a Route 66, cowboys, música e conversas com estranhos, surgem como elementos de uma lista de verificação da semântica convencional do road movie. Ao mesmo tempo, o filme afasta-se dos códigos do género, especialmente ao apresentar duas cineastas na estrada. Convocando a “histeria do género” de Corrigan, a proposta de Boczkowska de road movies experimentais e o “space-off” de Lauretis, através da análise do documentário L. A. Tea Time (2019), de Marcotte, este ensaio explora o potencial do filme, enquanto road movie experimental, na intersecção entre género fílmico, género social e espaço, destacando a contribuição fílmica de uma cinéfille.

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Biografia do Autor

  • Patrícia Brásia, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Lestras, Univerrsidade de Lisboa

    Patrícia Brásia is a FCT research fellow (2025.00799.BD). PhD candidate in Comparative Studies, with a special focus in film studies, is currently developing a research project that analyzes the impact on contemporary artistic practices, mainly through the cinematographic projects by Miranda July, of building, resourcing and working within the archive. With a bachelor’s degree in Cinema (University of Beira Interior), and a master degree in Television, Cinema and Transmedia Writing (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), as well as a master degree in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto), in her research, using a comparative approach, she applied Jack Halberstam’s reconceptualization of wildness to the analysis of artistic proposals. Having worked as a screenwriter, director and producer, at this time, she is part of FLUL’s Centre for Comparative Studies as a researcher in training.

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2026-10-15

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Brásia, P. (2026). “We’re filming on the way”: Filmmaking as a cinéfille on the road in L. A. Tea Time. Imagem: Revista De História Da Arte, 8(1), e22832. https://doi.org/10.34024/s7m06n78
Recebido 2026-08-27
Aceito 2026-09-17
Publicado 2026-10-15