Fiction versus reality: unspoken and unseen in Branco Sai, Preto Fica

Abstract

This article analyzes how the film Branco Sai, Preto Fica (2015), from the ceilandense director Adirley Queirós, uses narrative and audiovisual procedures to establish a critical relation with reality, affirming a political dimension which can tell stories ignored by history, contributing to break the power structures that keep the subordinate silenced and presenting new perspectives in the representation of the pripheries and its inhabitants. For this, the concept of ethical hacker as formulated by McKenzie Wark in A hacker manifesto (2004) will be used, as well as the reflections of André Gaudreault and François Jost in A narrativa cinematográfica (2009) and of Ella Shohat and Robert Stam in Crítica da imagem eurocêntrica (2006).