O grotesco simbólico na trilogia do ser humano

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the evocations of the grotesque in the Trilogy of the Human Being by Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson. To this end, a philosophical approach is adopted, based on the philosophy of symbolic forms by Ernst Cassirer, relating them to the reflections of the grotesque phenomenon by authors such as Rogério C. Almeida, Victor Hugo, Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin, to re-elaborate the notions of the grotesque and indicate the formation of a symbolic grotesque. The analysis of Roy Andersson’s work will be exploratory to identify distinctive elements in his work. This is due to the need to understand the grotesque phenomenon not only from an artistic cultural point of view, since this would limit it to a certain group or cultural influence, but as a philosophical phenomenon resulting from the conflict of human gnosis, which makes it a universal phenomenon.