Between seeing and being seen: notes on the visibility of man and animal in Cinema and Literature

Abstract

This article aims to establish intersections between the film Ex isto, made by Cao Guimarães, and the literary work that motivates it, Catatau, by Paulo Leminski, with the discussion of the positions occupied by the man and the animal. In order to emphasize the implications of a critical reversal brought by exposure of man, that is scrutinized and becomes image, and animal, which is positioned as the holder of the looking, we turn to the thought of George Didi-Huberman, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault.

Keywords

• Literatura
• Cinema
• Montagem
• Cao Guimarães
• Paulo Leminski