GEO-GRAFIAS DO SUB-COMUM E CONSTELAÇÕES AFETIVAS NOS CINEMAS NEGROS DE GABRIEL MARTINS

Arthur Pereira Santos

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.13442

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Arthur Pereira Santos State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9144-5884

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.13442

Keywords:

geo-graphies, cinema, black, undercommons, afrofabulation

Abstract

This article analyzes Gabriel Martins’ films Nada (2017) and Mars One (2022) through the categories of the undercommons and afrofabulation, highlighting the protagonism of Black children and youth. We argue that these works create undercommon geographies and affective constellations that destabilize linear time and hegemonic regimes of visibility, establishing alternative grammars for thinking Black childhood and youth in Brazil. Bia’s refusal in Nada and the trajectories of Deivinho and Eunice in Mars One show how contemporary Black cinema fabulates possible worlds through everyday life and critical imagination. By articulating cinema, geography, and education, the article proposes an analytical protocol to understand how moving images invent spatialities of resistance and trajectories of subcommon black lives.

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Author Biography

Arthur Pereira Santos, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Currently serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Education at UNICAMP. He is a professor-researcher with a bachelor's and master's degree from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from IPPUR-UFRJ, with a cotutelle in Geography at the University of Minho (Portugal). His work lies at the intersection of geography, Black cinema, education, and ethno-racial relations, with a focus on counter-colonial epistemologies and critical methodologies in teaching and research.

He develops studies on Black cinema, culture, and space, understanding audiovisual production as both a pedagogical and political tool. He has experience with audiovisual cartography practices and teacher training projects aimed at antiracist education. He is currently engaged in the analysis of the Cinema and Education Program in Campinas, particularly in relation to the emergence of Black cinemas and the implementation of Law 11.645/08. His research interests include: education, cinema and Black culture; counter-colonial geographies; affective cartographies; Black social movements; and urban and environmental struggles.