Much beyond cinema gardens: images of the ruins of the present to cultivate new futures

Abstract

The essay approaches two filmic situations of contemporary cinema. They are the documentary Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris by Terrence Dixon (1970/2020) and the movie Bacurau (2019) by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. The essay locates the importance of these works in their context of distribution, streaming, as a positive dimension for the elaboration of discourses and narratives of dissent in the politics of images. Both works acquire critical relevance due to their ruptures with the colonial imaginary of cinema and politics