With films came freedom: Cineground, memory of a portuguese queer cinematography from the 1970s
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2019.152959Keywords:
Amateur cinema, Travestite performance, Queer theory, LGBT rights, CinegroundAbstract
Cineground (1975-1978) was a Portuguese amateur film producer, founded during Ongoing Revolutionary Period by artist Óscar Alves and filmmaker João Paulo Ferreira. Also revolutionary due to the approach of sexualities still criminalized in the 1970’s, this project has shown that the true liberation of society would require the liberation of the individual body. This cinematography produced in Super-8, and characteristic of the particular social conditions of the format, addressed for the first time in Portuguese cinema the gay subject, with the representation of the double life of homosexuals and the issue of coming out, and also queer subjects, due to the constant presence of the transvestite character. I suggest a discussion around the transvestite performance as a possibility of transgression and denaturalization of normative norms of gender and identity, and a critique on the representation and visibility of LGBT people in cinema, especially in Cineground, becomes their vehicle of existence.
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