Afrofuturist cinema in the Recôncavo da Bahia, an aesthetics of memory

Abstract

We will cross the movies of the Recôncavo da Bahia in the search for inhabiting an aesthetic of memory forged in the experience between the life lived and the life imagined. They are films that lodge themselves in the future and invite us, through affection, to want to build this same dream world. The short films we host bathe margins of a movement of imagination of self with the desire to be expandable to a we. From the crossing of the films emerges a collective body that carries the strength, the ginga (corporal skill), and the dengo (a kind of cuddlyness) of an ancestral territory.