The cinema-debate promoting encounters between cinema and school

Abstract

Taking as its starting point the hypothesis cinema, by Alain Bergala (2008), we recognize cinema as otherness, because, from experience with the cinema, we can be the other, live in the other's territory, fly through different spaces and times. In this process, the cinema may enter the school as a creative potential; to promote the meeting of students with different aesthetic experiences, to provoke doubts and questioning the common-place, the social and cultural patterns, the fixed identities. The experience with cinema-debate in public schools in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói, allowed us to discuss cinematographic production, favor the convergence between cinema and school, contribute to increase the number of Brazilian films seen, question what we consider "to look". Through a qualitative research, we could see the students' desire to go deeper into this discussion, to learn about the film genres they prefer and, how often do they go to the movies. These results recommend the continuity of the experience with cinema-debate.

Cinema; school; education of seeing; otherness