Resumo:
This paper proposes a critical and reflective analysis of the participation of black women in contemporary Bahian cinema, based on the analysis of the film Travessia (2018) by Safira Moreira, which is an important milestone for the transformations surrounding the image and the presence of new imaginaries in Brazilian cinema. The study is anchored in the need for ruptures and discontinuities in the naturalization of Eurocentric discourses and representations produced and legitimized in the field of cinema in modernity. The work examines the ambivalences that revolve around black female cinema from Bahia, between absences and urgency, silencing and visibilities, in the construction of an Afro-Latin American diasporic memory.
