O dever de memória e o uso do audiovisual para pensar a infância durante a ditadura civil-militar brasileira

Abstract

The research aims to analyze two films, feature and short films, namely: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006), by the Brazilian director Cao Hamburger and 15 Children (1996), by Maria de Oliveira Soares and Marta Nehring, to reflect on the audiovisual as a source of representation and interpretation of the past. In addition, the research analyzes the contributions of cinematographic works to the debate on the "hierarchies of memories" in relation to the Brazilian dictatorial past, proposing an articulation between cinema, the uses of the past in the public sphere and the memory of childhood during the civil-military dictatorship of 1964. Starting from the premise that the audiovisual also produces meaning about history, the work seeks to demonstrate how the use of films makes it possible to reflect on daily life during the dictatorship in Brazil, from the perspective of childhood. In addition, it seeks to highlight the contributions that the discussion of this theme has in the sense of projecting in the public sphere the memories of a certain group of people who for many years were not contemplated by the policies of memory and transitional justice in Brazil, composed of the generation of the children of guerrillas and politically persecuted who were victims of the violence imposed by the military dictatorship.