Representations in dialogue in short films in São Paulo and Paris

The symbolic right to the city from peripheral territories

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the representations of cities mobilized in short films produced on the peripheries of the cities of São Paulo and Paris. To achieve these objectives, it considers the notions of physical and symbolic territories and discusses, from an audiovisual perspective, the right to the city and the circulation of individuals in the urban space. By reflecting on the similarities and differences in the films made by young people recently trained in audiovisual technical courses in both cities, it seeks a possible dialogue between sets of recent productions that seek, from the territory of origin, to frame possible worlds and claim the possibility of imagining new futures. The research looks more broadly at the political perspective of these cultural objects, crossed by the themes of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, in dialogue with recent audiovisual production.