Cinema, body, territory

contemporary realist films as cartographies of urban affections

Abstract

The possibility of understanding cinema as a cartographic process is explored. Drawing from the perspectives of authors such as André Bazin, Gilles Deleuze and Giuliana Bruno, comments are presented on the predominance and trends in contemporary cinematic production of realist films that are attentive to the materiality of urban living. It is assumed that in an active relationship between the viewer and the work, the city perceived in realist narratives does not solely stem from a visual character that is fully displayed, but rather it is primarily established within a field of meanings and subjectivities. Thus, taking a panoramic view, the objective is to consider aesthetic approaches that enable an understanding of this cinema as an instrument of inference. A device that maps ways of life and reveals the procedural dimension of phenomena. It is asserted that films, imbued with the real dimension of urban living, present themselves to the viewer as a cartographic act that, in a relational nature, traces movements and affects.