Estudo sobre espaços abandonados : documentar a ruína com as linguagens da imagem em movimento instalada

Tese de mestrado, Arte musltimédia - Audiovisuais, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2014This dissertation, entitled Documentar a ruina com as linguagens da imagem em movimento instalada (Documenting the ruin with the languages of the installed moving image), is a work of theoretical and practical nature, with the purpose of completing a Masters in Multimedia Arts in Audiovisual. The aim of this study is to examine and invite to a reflection about the different dimensions contained in the space of the ruin, which, in its quality of being a stray relating to a whole, as a fragment of a lost complexity, inevitably represents a field of interest for a filmic gaze with a documental approach. This research originated from the conceptual, aesthetic and interpretive relationship between my audiovisual production and the object of the investigation: the poetic of the abandoned spaces. With this purpose, on one side it was built an analysis based on the ruin's imaginary, by the other side we explored the potential of different type of poetics and techniques throughout other artist film productions, intended to create possible correlations with my own work. The artists, thinkers and philosophers presented cohabit in my memory's inventory and are agents of an active influence on my audiovisual production. These are references that stand on the threshold between documentary and installative moving image: Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki, Artavazd Peleshyan. The practical project consists of three videos that create a dimensional and fragmented study of the visual space, studying different ways to represent the abandoned spaces which are left to the modelling of tim