[Screenplays: creation as experimentation]
In a tour of different screenwriting practices in contemporary Brazilian cinema, the book Roteiros: Da criação como experimentação delves into the experience of the film script as a function rather than as a format. It proposes, through the plural of the term (Roteiros), to look at the tool as a resource for experimentation. By their very nature, scripts offer a way of thinking (and creating) that is transitory and therefore propulsive. Something that “is” while at the same time projecting and inspiring “will be”.
The scripts, as ways of thinking and doing, dialog with different moments of creation and are reconstructed in the gestures of giving creation to the spectator. Above all, they are a resource for testing hypotheses, and remind us of the impermanence and unfinished nature of the (many and diverse) narratives that inhabit the world and that make up one of the many creative materials of subjects and scripts.
Like springs, scripts tend, incite and project the creation of possible and sometimes impossible films. In their mobile dynamics, they help the film to stay alive in the midst of the (usually long) process of making it. They are retold, restored and rewritten with each new reading (version), as a way of reactivating the experience of imagining and making films imaginable.
This way of looking at the script comes to this study, above all, from observing different accounts of the process and creative strategies of Brazilian filmmakers, such as Anna Muylaert, Eliane Caffé, Leonardo Mouramateus, Marcelo Gomes, Karim Ainouz, Alê Abreu and Cao Guimarães, among others. The choice of screenwriter-director arose from the desire to follow, through the creative archives of these filmmakers, the unfolding of the script throughout the creative process – before, during and after filming – but with a priority focus on the ways in which the script is made and in search of what is intrinsic to it.
Like Aristotle in his Poetics, who sought to develop a theory based on the practice of artists of his time, this book attempts to develop a theory based on the practice of important Brazilian screenwriters of our time. A “poetics of screenwriting” inspired by the practices of contemporary Brazilian cinema – one of many possible – and which seeks to offer a complementary (rather than opposing) view to traditional screenwriting bibliographies and to those interested in studying creation in general, and the making of cinema and screenwriting in specific.
Year: 2024
Support: Print | PDF
ISBN: 978-989-9023-94-9 (Print)
ISBN: 978-989-9023-09-3 (PDF)
DOI: 10.34623/3vbk-z960
Pages: 204
Dimensions: 215,9 × 279,4 mm
Coordination: Mirian Nogueira Tavares e Cecilia Almeida Salles
Edition: Ana Isabel Soares, Patrícia Dourado, Paula Martinelli e Wagner de Miranda
Esta publicação também está disponível em: Portuguese (Portugal)