Acreditando... É possível: Três meses de viagem

Fiz o meu estágio curricular na companhia Trigo Limpo Teatro ACERT, em Tondela. Uma companhia com uma essência e um carisma singulares e especiais. Estive lá três meses (de março a maio). Tive oportunidade de acompanhar inúmeras actividades e participar em vários projectos, em vez de (como na maioria dos estágios desta natureza) integrar exclusivamente um processo de criação artística. Procurando facilitar a organização e compreensão do meu percurso na ACERT, defini três fases do meu estágio: a fase de conhecimento e entrosamento na companhia; a Queima e Rebentamento do Judas; a Fantástica Aventura duma Criança chamada Pinóquio. Foi desta estrutura que parti para passar para palavras o que experienciei e cresci na ACERT, não só como actriz, mas como pessoa. Num registo pessoal, descrevo no relatório de estágio os momentos mais relevantes de todo o processo, o que aprendi com os mesmos e o que mudou em mim. /ABSTRACT: I did my curricular traineeship at the Theatre Company Trigo Limpo Teatro ACERT, in Tondela. It's a theatre troupe with an essence and a charisma very special and unique. I was there for three months (from March to May). I had the chance to accompany many activities as to participate in several projects, instead of being parte only on one creative process. Trying to make the understanding and organization of my path in the ACERT easier, I defined three phases on my traineeship: presentation and integration with the whole team; the street show Queima e Rebentamento do Judas; The fantastic adventure of a child called Pinóquio. This was my starting point to write about all I experienced and developed at ACERT, not only as an actress but also as a human being. ln an informal register, I describe on my report the process' most relevant moments, what I've learned with them and what has changed about myself.

Incidente em Antares e O cão e Os caluandas : Literatura brasileira e angolana na perspectiva da sátira menipeia

Esta pesquisa estuda Incidente em Antares, de Erico Veríssimo, e O cão e os caluandas, de Pepetela, na perspectiva da sátira menipeia. Para além da biografia dos autores, busca-se discutir as origens do gênero da menipeia, recuperando o seu mais importante representante - Luciano de Samósata. É, porém, sob a teoria de Mikhail Bakhtin que se analisam as obras dos escritores brasileiro e angolano. Quer-se verificar a presença de específicas características da sátira menipeia, as quais são o carnaval e o riso ritual, a paródia, a liberdade imaginativa, o fantástico e seus desdobramentos, as cenas excêntricas, os contrastes, a polifonia, a utilização de gêneros intercalados e a chamada publiscística atualizada. No último capítulo há uma observação sociológica das obras, o que permite pensá-las como um retrato das sociedades a que os autores se referem. ABSTRACT: This research studies Incidente em Antares, by Erico Veríssimo, and O cão e os caluandas, by Pepetela, in the perspective of the menippean sati.re. Besides de authors' biography, it tries to discuss the origin of the genre, recovering its most important representative - Luciano de Samosata. However, the search analyses the works of the Brazilian and Angolan writers upon the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin. lt intends to verify the presence of the specific characteristics of the menippean satire, which are: carnival and the ritual Iaughting, parody, imaginative freedom, the fantastic and its unfolding, eccentric scenes, contrasts, polyphony, intercalary genres and the up-to-date publiscistic. ln the last chapter there is a sociologic observation concerning the works, which allow thinking about them as a portrait of the societies that the authors want to discuss.

‘Crows’ vs. ‘Avatar’, or: 3D vs. total-dimensional immersion

3D film’s explicit new space depth arguably provides both an enhanced realistic quality to the image and a wealth of more acute visual and haptic sensations (a ‘montage of attractions’) to the increasingly involved spectator. But David Cronenberg’s related ironic remark that ‘cinema as such is from the outset a «special effect»’ should warn us against the geometrical naiveté of such assumptions, within a Cartesian ocularcentric tradition for long overcome by Merleau-Ponty’s embodiment of perception and Deleuze’s notion of the self-consistency of the artistic sensation and space. Indeed, ‘2D’ traditional cinema already provides the accomplished «fourth wall effect», enclosing the beholder behind his back within a space that no longer belongs to the screen (nor to ‘reality’) as such, and therefore is no longer ‘illusorily’ two-dimensional. This kind of totally absorbing, ‘dream-like’ space, metaphorical for both painting and cinema, is illustrated by the episode ‘Crows’ in Kurosawa’s Dreams. Such a space requires the actual effacement of the empirical status of spectator, screen and film as separate dimensions, and it is precisely the 3D caracteristic unfolding of merely frontal space layers (and film events) out of the screen towards us (and sometimes above the heads of the spectators before us) that reinstalls at the core of the film-viewing phenomenon a regressive struggle with reality and with different degrees of realism, originally overcome by film since the Lumière’s Arrival of a Train at Ciotat seminal demonstration. Through an analysis of crucial aspects in Avatar and the recent Cave of Forgotten Dreams, both dealing with historical and ontological deepening processes of ‘going inside’, we shall try to show how the formal and technically advanced component of those 3D-depth films impairs, on the contrary, their apparent conceptual purpose on the level of contents, and we will assume, drawing on Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, that this technological mistake is due to a lack of recognition of the nature of perception and sensation in relation to space and human experience.