Mulheres no circuito de cinema em Curitiba entre 1976 e 1989

Abstract

This research is about women in the Curitiba film circuit, between 1976 and 1989. By crossing documents, biographical narratives, and theoretical frameworks, I intended to reconstruct women’s experiences in several activities such as making films, organizing exhibitions and festivals, research activities, training courses, and film criticism. Therefore, I mapped people, events, and spaces, describing and analyzing ways these women constituted knowledge, practices, and sociabilities. Along this path, in public, private and personal collections, I found a varied typology of documents with fragments and clues about the uses of cinema in the city. I argue that to recognize these women’s experiences, it is also necessary to shift investigation’s objects and methods, considering a diversity of practices, documents, and narratives. From this perspective, the circuit notion becomes congruous. Thereby, it is possible to tell not only women’s experiences, but other film narratives, which are relevant to recognize tensions, asymmetries, and the multiplicity of the Brazilian film field, and more specifically, of the Paraná state film field.