Whatever happened to the melancholic queer?
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.144666Keywords:
artifice, Brazilian contemporary cinema, melancholia, queer cinemaAbstract
This essay aims at discussing how the presence of a queer melancholy can bring new creational possibilities. To achieve this, I intend to briefly discuss the ideas of the melancholy as lack and phantasmagoria, to then counter them with the idea of production and aestheticization, especially as brought by the Brazilian film Doce Amianto (2013), realized by Guto Parente and Uirá dos Reis. The essay argues that the melancholic queer refuses the present they live in, enabling the creation of new ways of life for the queer subject by the means of a melancholic aestheticization. Finally, I also intend to discuss how this could bring new and enriching aesthetic choices for queer films.
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