This is the work I published in academia.
Featured speaker at the XV International Congress of the Spanish Association of Film Historians (AEHC), co-hosted by Yale University, on April 11, 2025.
PhD. Thesis-novel
Could someone’s entire existence be aligned from the grooves and drafts of a memory? Petra, Naomi, Clarissas e Clarices — writers, storytellers and characters —were bent over the weight of a memory. The past seems to lead the way, all-mighty, of the rhythm of literary, cinematographic and family narratives. This thesis proposes as a method that fiction is an unique way of freeing oneself from time’s will to imprison us all. The text is a hybrid between memory and creation, like the merge of the romance novel’s investigation to the academic research. From the questions and proposals found in Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; Elena and Olmo and the Seagull by Petra Costa; Symphony in White, by Adriana Lisboa, and Tarachime, by Naomi Kawase, with help from philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Friedrich Nietzsche, the romance-thesis about four generations of women searches for the answer to how an artist can overcome the burden of the eternal recurrence.
You can read it in Portuguese here.
Master’s thesis
Love is one of the most recurrent subject in all art forms. Writers, artists and directors have looked upon it as a theme and as a muse. Faced with a society that abandoned old patterns, breaking marriages, opening new sexual adventures and wondering what kind of relationship they would like to live, this study investigated the panorama of love relationships in contemporary cinema. For this purpose, we used concepts of Gilles Deleuze and started with the crisis of the action-image and break with the classical narrative cinema to examine the current cinema on the characteristics of the time-image. Having reigned a romantic cinema with happy ending stories, until the 60s, we questioned the love that emerged from that time on. The paths in search of this response were outlined by theoretical studies about love, affections and film and film analysis through four major films: "A woman is a woman" (1961), by Jean-Luc Godard, "La belle personne" (2008), by Christophe Honoré, "Somewhere"(2010), by Sofia Coppola's and "The dreamers" (2003), by Bernardo Bertolucci.
You can read it in Portuguese here.
