The place of traumatic testimony and the representation in documentaries about Military Dictatorship in Brazil.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to understand how the testimony of survivors of authoritarian regimes occurs, especially the Military Dictatorship of Brazil, and to identify how the documentaries present these traumatic reports in their narrative. The place of the testimony in the construction of the memory of society will be discussed, its relevance in the collective scenario and how the testimony originates and behaves in the cinematographic language. There will be a combination of historical, philosophical and literary knowledge and analysis of the film narrative about the behavior of the testimony in the documentary. In this way, it will be possible to understand how cinema records and signifies trauma, characterized as a memory that does not pass.