Abstract
This article presents the results of the postdoctoral research whose aims was to study the relation between cinema, education, and the contemporary imaginaries of dystopia, nihilism and affirmation through the hermeneutic investigation of three films released in this decade: O Som ao Redor (Neighboring Sounds, 2012) by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Turin Horse (2011) by Hungarian director Béla Tarr and Winter Sleep (2014) by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This work presents a synthesis of the educative grounds of cinema in seven axes – cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, mythical, existential, anthropological and poetic –, justifies the methodological options adopted and the hermeneutic-symbolic approach in order to carry out the analysis of the films in confrontation with contemporary imaginaries. The results of the research show that the selected approaches – dystopia, nihilism and affirmation – do not appear isolated in the films but are nuanced. Neighboring Sounds is not purely dystopic but rather a little nihilistic. In The Turin Horse the nihilistic imaginary is accompanied by a certain degree of affirmation. Winter Sleep only reaches the affirmation after traveling nihilistic steps. The conclusion is that the contemporary is multifaceted, a space of tension of imaginary-discursive forces that compete for an image of the world.
Cinema and education; Contemporary imaginaries; Dystopia; Nihilism; Affirmation