DO LIXÃO NASCE FLOR

ENTRE O CINEMA DE QUEBRADA E “O RAP DA VILA RIO”

Abstract

In official documents, monuments, textbooks, holidays and civic celebrations, the protagonists of History are present, whether from a city, a country, a continent or an entire era. But where is the record of those anonymous, invisible and apparently unimportant, as Bertolt Brecht told us, who built the Chinese wall, the pyramids of Egypt, the achievements worthy of being remembered and admired collectively? Based on the work of Walter Benjamin and peripheral cinema – that is, cinema made on the periphery of capitalism – this project seeks to investigate and reconstitute part of the memory of the oppressed based on their own narratives, images and places of origin. According to Benjamin, the materialist historian must do archaeological work with what happened, pick up the pieces and remember the dead to recognize and redeem them. In Brazil in the 21st century, driven by social and technological changes, filmmakers living in peripheral regions have made films not only about, but mainly in the communities where they live and work. Many of these films address Hip Hop culture, reflecting its memory in the construction of a counter-story.