A presença do espaço museológico na obra de Manoel de Oliveira : contributos do filme O Dia do Desespero

From the 19th century to the present, museums and cinema have consolidated their presence in Western societies, proposing ways of seeing and thinking the world. The intersections between these two domains are increasingly as a matter of study and reflection. In this work, we intend to establish relationships between the museological area and the cinematographic art through the analysis of the representation of the museum space and its resources in moving images. We delimited the field of our study to Manoel de Oliveira's filmography, in which there is a tendency to give prominence to different museums. In this sense, we sought to understand how and in what context museums are present as a theme and as an element that participates in the construction of images and serves the artistic interests of the filmmaker. As an object of study, we chose the film The Day of Despair, a feature film that was filmed entirely in a house-museum, located in the house where the nineteenth century writer Camilo Castelo Branco lived and died, in Vila Nova de Famalicão. With regard to the study of the impacts of reality and the museological universe on films, we favored the analysis of the use of guided tours. This mediation tool, also used in museum´s contexts, incorporating the educational strategies of institutions, is reproduced in cinema as a means to address, present and convey information about museum spaces and objects. In this work, we are interested in understanding how the guided tour can contribute to the representation of museums in cinem