Under penalty of death: reveries of justice in Morris e Kieślowski

devaneios da justiça em Morris e Kieślowski

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poetic reverie, figural analysis, visual motifs, political imagination, production of presence

Abstract

The text analyzes the figural aspects of The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) and A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988) as reveries of justice driven by the abolitionist imagination of the death penalty. This imagination finds its power in the inviolability of human life as a sense of justice experienced through poetic treatments of the death penalty as a visual motif. The films are approached in a theoretical dialogue between Bachelard’s concept of “poetic reverie” and Dubois’ “Figural question”, as they allow us to think of fiction and documentary as filmic reveries that lead us to a poetic and political experience with the phenomenological world of justice.

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Author Biography

Dinaldo Filho, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-americana (UNILA)

Professor Adjunto de Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA). Docente permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura Comparada (PPGLC-UNILA). Doutor em Sociologia pelo Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ). Mestre em Comunicação Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Exerce atividades de ensino e pesquisa em teoria, história e estética do cinema, com ênfase nas relações entre cinema comparado, figuratividade fílmica, memória figurativa, imaginação poética e pensamento político e moral. Autor do livro “Os mistérios do Carandiru: cárcere, massacre e cultura de massas” (Luminária/Multifoco, 2011). Foi Pró-Reitor de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação da UNILA (2016-2019).

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2025-04-29

How to Cite

Filho, D. (2025). Under penalty of death: reveries of justice in Morris e Kieślowski : devaneios da justiça em Morris e Kieślowski . Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 15(1). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/138766

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): Jan./Mar. 2025

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Contemporary Topics IV

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