Sobre a violência: cinema, educação, sociedade e política em Moçambique, (1938-2016)

“On Violence: Cinema, Education, Society and Politics in Mozambique (1938-2016)” is an ethnographic and anthropologigal study, combining images and different discours modalities; it covers three periods of the Mozambican ‘contemporary’ history: before, during and after the armed struggle. These three periods are connected the ones to the others throught their ties of “contaminations” in the perpetuation of war violence and its derivates for the trauma most of the mozambican society is caught in today, making it difficult the ascention to other levels of social equity. The mobilized material indicates two factors: a) the existence of a potential to be capitalized and b) the relevant role arts can still play in such contexts: by recycling and adapting the original paradigmatic “choreography” between continuing to make artworks in the “beautfull mode” or considering also new modalities of making artworks, opposing therefore the pure “production” mode to the “contemplation for action” one – aiming at “touching” and, eventually, “healing” so many “wounds”. A research where Michel FOUCAULT, J. CRESWELL, the colombian Elkin RUBIANO, the brasilian Osmar MOREIRA from UNEB (Baia State University, Alagoinhas, Salvador da Baía), and University and Politechnic Institute of Lisbon, The New University of Lisbon, of Beira Interior professors, amoung others, engage a conversation in order to contribute to the establishment of an artistic action program in the Mozambican university institutions