Realidade e ficção em Porto Nacional: Uma análise do filme "A massa que faz o pão" (2018).

Abstract

This paper aims to present the interaction and relations of the convergence between History and Cinema, addresses the representation of "reality versus fiction in Porto Nacional through the cinematographic work "The dough that makes bread" by director Hélio Brito (2018)", The general objective was to address an analysis of the film emphasizing reality and fiction within the local culture of Porto Nacional. Having as specific objectives; to watch the film thoroughly in order to extract study material through the scenario, context and speech; to analyze the relationship between History and Cinema and its theoretical and practical aspects. Based on the data collected during the research, it was found that the relationship between cinema and history is of great importance, and that their partnership has contributed to the affirmation of cinema as art, since cinema makes it possible to recreate history in its fictional, epic, or surrealistic particularity. Hélio Brito's short film, a fiction film with an epic surrealist language that builds the fictionalized history of Porto Nacional, set in an imaginary city, is, in fact, a fusion that is part of the historical records and of what is part of the filmmaker's film universe; it is the representation of historical reality and a fiction with a surrealist approach.