Fires and cinders of images
The word incinerrante condenses some of the landscapes and paths that open up here: the itinerant (the walk), the incinerating (the fire), the errant (the wanderer), the error (the false), the cine (the movement), the incinerated (the ashes, the cinders). Written by Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro, this site was created in 2009 and, since then, has undergone some reformulations until it became a kind of (an)archive of wanderings between images.
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Publications
I write about cinema and other research subjects, but I also take my risks in some literary wanders. Here are some of my most recent publications.
Translated book Cenas da sujeição (Scenes of subjection)
Translated with Fernanda Sousa from the revised and expanded edition published in 2022, Saidiya Hartman’s book discusses slavery, agency, and subjectivity with rare force.
Book Do inimaginável (Of the unimaginable)
An essay on film and human rights, my first book questions the fictional rearchiving, the imaginative refusal, and the anarchival remontage as forms of relation to the images of nazi camps in film history.
Story “O Tecelão” (“The Weaver”), in the book O olhar inaudível (The inaudible look)
An allegory of writing, but also of other forms of sharing times and experiences, the story imagines a weaver of skin and the monstrous landscapes of their life, their searches, their desires.
Essay “Casulo, secreção, segredo”, in the book No rastro dos encontros perdidos (In the wake of lost encounters)
A claim of the secret of cinders in film history, the essay dialogues with Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Walter Benjamin and Edimilson de Almeida Pereira to think about history.
Projects
Here are my most recent research projects. To learn more about them, click on the corresponding title. For all projects, click on the button below:
Atlas of cosmopoetics, 1950-1980: decolonization and collective frameworks in the emergence of African cinemas [2023-2026]
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The anarchival paradigm and the modern-colonial archive in film and audiovisual media [2020-2023]
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Teaching
I am professor of History and Theories of Cinema and Audiovisual Media at the Federal University of Bahia since May 2017, and hold a permanent position in the Graduate Program em Contemporary Communication and Culture, in the same university, since 2021. Here are some of the courses I offer today or have recently offered (more information coming soon):
Film History
- Compulsory subject in the major in Film and Audiovisual Media offered in UFBA for the Interdisciplinary Baccalaureate in Arts.
- Also offered to undergraduate students from other majors and academic backgrounds.
Comparative studies in world cinema
- Optional subject of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Communication and Culture.
- Also offered to graduate (and sometimes undergraduate) students from other programs and academic backgrounds.