BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM: A METHODOLOGICAL PATH FOR SELF-WRITING FILMS

Abstract

In recent years, first-person film production, which elaborates memories and intimate feelings, has been gaining more space in Brazilian filmography. At the same speed as the accomplishments of the "intimate writings" or "writings of the self", his critical fortune also expands. Part of the theoretical foundation still drinks from the source of the literary field, in authors such as Philippe Lejeune or Serge Doubrovsky. We will start here with a question: in a first-person film, what can the biography of the director say? To problematize it, we will work on the works and biography of filmmaker Cristiano Burlan. Born in Porto Alegre, but based in Capão Redondo, São Paulo, the director lived with the fact of losing his father, brother - murdered by the militia - and his mother, a victim of femicide. He made films out of it, making the "Trilogy of Mourning" that we will address throughout the work.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.008-013