MEMÓRIA AUDIOVISUAL E RECONSTRUÇÃO DE VIDA NO DOCUMENTÁRIO ELENA (BRASIL, 2012)

Abstract

In this documentary director Petra Costa rescues the brief and troubled life of his sister from family videos, cassettes used as voicemails between Elena, who was in New York and the family who remained in Brazil. Using various media technology she has created and developed for audiovisual, writer and director Petra Costa renews the language of audiovisual, building a fresh storyline and polyphonic, which enlightens the audience and serves as catharsis for the story of the suicide of a loved one that marks the life of a family. The richness of images and sounds documentary takes us to the English School in the 30s and 40s and mainly of Brazilian novels of the 80s and 90s, who are part of the memory of Petra and Elena and that has been recovered and reissued in Brazil in the latest releases in digital format.

Keywords - documentary, audiovisual, soap operas, digital format.