“‘Eu filmo para guardar uma lembrança’ – Dimensões políticas e coletivas da autobiografia em Nous, de Alice Diop” [“I film to keep a memory” – Political and collective dimensions from Alice Diop’s autobiography in Nous] by Gabriela Almeida & Ana Camila Esteves (2023) | Article

Abstract: “This article presents an analysis of the film Nous (2021), by French-Senegalese filmmaker Alice Diop, based on two aesthetic-formal elements: mise en scène and editing. Considering certain resources mobilized in the work, such as the use of the autobiographical in a political perspective, that places the Afro-diasporic experience of the French population of migrant origin at the center, we analyse the dynamics between the individual and the collective produced by the film. We verify the relationships that Diop creates between the daily lives of racialized inhabitants of the outskirts of Paris and white French people, putting into perspective the complexities of identity in contemporary France and questioning who is ultimately part of this “we” to which the film’s title refers.”

The article is available in Portuguese and in open access on the Eco-Pós journal website.

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2023

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Gabriela Almeida & Ana Camila Esteves

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