Under Penalty of Death:

reveries of justice in Morris and Kieślowski

Auteurs

  • Dinaldo Filho Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana – UNILA

Mots-clés :

Poetic Reverie, Figural Analysis, Visual Motif, Political Imagination, Effect of Presence

Résumé

The text analyzes the figural aspects of The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988) and A Short Film About Killing (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 via a theoretical dialogue between Bachelard’s concept of poetic reverie and Dubois’ Figural question, as they allow us to investigate 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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Biographie de l'auteur

Dinaldo Filho, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana – UNILA

Dinaldo Filho is an Adjunct Professor of Cinema and the Audiovisual Industry at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA). He is a permanent lecturer on the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature (PPGLC-UNILA). PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies of Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ). Master in Social Communication from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He teaches and researches film theory, history and aesthetics, with an emphasis on the relationship between comparative cinema, filmic figurativeness, figurative memory, poetic imagination and political and moral thought.

Publiée

2025-04-29

Comment citer

Filho, D. (2025). Under Penalty of Death:: reveries of justice in Morris and Kieślowski. Révue Brésilienne d’Études De La Présence, 15(1). Consulté à l’adresse https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/147122

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Questions Contemporaines IV