This conference will present a study that maps and analyses images produced privately during the period of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). The research, conducted by two Brazilian researchers, explores public and private archives in search of amateur recordings that expose the abuses committed by agents of the state. One of the highlights of the study is the discovery of a Super-8 film of the wedding of political activist Inês Etienne Romeu, which includes rare scenes of her release from prison, captured by filmmaker Norma Bengell. Based on these images and the personal archives of Inês Etienne and Norma Bengell, the conference will reconstruct the trajectory of these two women and the networks of solidarity that connected them, revealing forms of female resistance that challenged the authoritarian regime.

Thais Blank has been an Adjunct Professor at FGV CPDOC's School of Social Sciences since 2017 and at the Postgraduate Programme in History, Politics and Cultural Assets since 2018. She coordinates the Documentation sector at FGV CPDOC (2021) and co-coordinates the Audiovisual and Documentary Centre (2015). She leads the research group Laboratório de Estudos da Cultura Visual (LECV) and is co-editor of the journal Estudos Históricos (2019). Since 2012, she has co-coordinated the ‘Other Films’ group at the congress of the Association of Moving Image Researchers in Portugal. Her studies focus on archive images, amateur cinema and their relationship with education and history. She is the author of the book Cinema Doméstico Brasileiro 1920-1965 (2020).

Open Class | Cultural Animation, Master's in Sociology