Produção da memória sobre a Guerrilha do Araguaia no documentário “Araguaia: campo sagrado”

Abstract

From the documentary "Araguaia: Campo Sagrado" (2011), with the direction of Evandro Medeiros and the production of Labor Films, it was intended to seek, in an interpretation of the speeches of the social actors, the production of memory regarding the historical event of the Guerrilla of Araguaia. In order to do so, it was necessary to make an incursion into the history of cinema, identifying and approaching the nonfiction documentary genre as a producer of meanings, not forgetting the perspectives found under its idealizer, as well as focused on the study of the form of construction of history from this filmic genre. The work begins with the study of the military regime experienced in Brazil in the years 1964/1985. It also provides a historical framework on the democratic political regime and human rights, on the armed confrontation and the disparity of forces that took place in the Araguaia. At another point, it was necessary to approach the memory portrayed by Le Goff and Pollak, in order to have a perspective of the collective memory produced. Using the hermeneutics proposed by Gadamer, analyzing the speeches of the subjects present in the documentary, we sought to identify the likely contextualized meaning to the present day. In response, there was a strong oppression of peasants and guerrillas in the Xambioá region and settlements on the Araguaia River in Tocantins and Pará during the confrontation of the Araguaia Guerrilla; the memories then produced are of fear, suffering and aversion to the regime installed at the time, as well as it can be deduced from the speeches of the social subjects that there is still a veiled silence of the hardships then experienced.