No Bixiga, sobre o Bixiga: produção audiovisual, representações e identidades urbanas em disputa

Resumo (EN)

Bixiga is an intercultural territory with peripheral characteristics, located in the central region of São Paulo, but historically, it has been hegemonically depicted as an Italian neighborhood, where audiovisual production plays a significant role. The objective of this research is to understand the contribution of peripheral audiovisuals in challenging hegemonic representations, proposing new ways of perception and (re)construction of this territory. The analysis corpus involved the practices and productions of the Coletivos Cinequebrada and Caramuja – research, memory, and audiovisual, producers of the documentary Oxente, Bixiga! (Fagundes; Vargas, 2021). The choice for this focus was made with the understanding that both collectives engage in political activism – in Bixiga and about Bixiga – through audiovisuals and from a peripheral or counter-hegemonic perspective, based on three axes: audiovisual production, training activities, and film clubbing. The adopted methodology was the articulation between filmic and contextual analysis, involving the analysis of the collectives' audiovisual production (Prysthon, 2008; Souza, 2012, 2016); and b. ethnographically inspired fieldwork (De Oliveira, 2018; Geertz, 2008; Marcus, 1995; Pereira, 2021) at events, workshops, film screenings, and recording days among others. Based on contextual and filmic analysis, from the field to theory (Agier, 2015), we sought to understand how these collectives construct new perspectives on identity and representation (García Canclini, 2001; Hall, 2003, 2014, 2016; Martín-Barbero, 2014b), with an approach perspective of urban communication (Caiafa, 2002; Pereira; Rett; Bezerra, 2021) and the spatial dynamics and mobility in the city (Aderaldo, 2017, 2021; Massey, 2000). Thus, we aim to understand new ways of representing and constructing the city and forms of urban living.