Geografias do nada e o cinema de Chantal Akerman

Abstract

The present work presents a discussion about the encounters between cinema, life and geography. From Chantal Akerman's film D’est (1993) and video installation Expanded time (2018-2019), we seek to experiment the space-time senses that the work express with the imagined geographies of academic and everyday experience. We believe that the production of spaces and times is the happening of life that creates and recreates images of places, things and their interrelationships. The daily life is an element pertinent to the work of the filmmaker and in D’est the details of existence provoke the exercise of updating the space-time imaginations, just as the video installation provokes the coexistence of trajectories, the multiplicity of worlds, as proposed by Doreen Massey (2008). The experimentation of cinema is plunged into possibilities of work by the geographic plane, since the activity of thinking and producing geography (ies) is not strange to the daily life, but is entangled and produced from it. We aim to investigate the images of the film and the encounter-body-video-work experience that overflow, flee from its representational role and cause in us, spectators, people of all kinds and ways, timespacial problems. Within this work we propose, then, to think beyond the contents presented by the works but the encounter, the senses, what happens between these worlds, ours and the worlds opened by the cinema. It is in this process that these geographies pre-constructed by everyday images go into a trance, ravishing what was known and thought to know until then. Time, space, mental sensations, corporeal imaginations.