Virgem Margarida and A Última Prostituta: the Death of the Boundaries between Documentary and Fiction?

Abstract

In Mozambique, as in many other parts of the world, cinema nowadays assumes confgurations regarding genres and modes, dynamic and innovative, especially in the ethical and aesthetic perspective. Having as object of reflection A última prostituta and Virgem Margarida, both of Licínio de Azevedo, the article intends to discuss the boundaries between the documentary cinema and the one of fction. In the light of cinematographic theories and practices, interdisciplinary and intertextual readings that link image, theories and practices of representation and of memory that allow to associate techniques and semantic effects, from structures that function as signs and values constructs of senses are approached. The reflection is fundamentally a call to reflections that take the objects - cinematographic works - as texts that are inserted in different contexts and that investigate the world, summoning plural and dynamic visions.