Do teatro ao cinema: uma cartografia do processo criativo do filme Inferninho

Abstract

This research is a mapping of the affects, intensities, relationships and ways of life that permeated the creative process of Inferninho, a Brazilian (Ceará) 2018 film directed by Guto Parente and Pedro Diógenes. In the film — which brought together artists from both theatre and cinema by a partnership between the Bagaceira Theatre Group, Marrevolto Films and Tardo Films — the artist-researcher takes both the role of co-screenwriter and actor (as the character Coelho). The description of the process is done in first person, resulting in an embodied and performative writing. The theoretical foundation of this research is composed by artists from diverse points of views, both from inside and outside the Academy, with focus on the creative practice; by researchers that gave sequence to the heritage of the Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza, considering the unity body/ mind and their understanding of “affect” in the fields of epistemology, social critique, philosophy, clinic, linguistics, and others. In sum, this research shows how the creative process is permeated by deaths and ruptures in diverse levels, the creative gestures of the artist-researcher being the outcome of a vital force, a survival effort to not succumb to the pain and sorrow affects or our time. Such effort became embodied in the discourse and in the poetics of the film, making Inferninho a life affirming experience that is at the same time ethic, aesthetic and political.