Narrativas sobre Mauro: vozes/intérpretes do legado do cineasta ao cinema brasileiro

Abstract

The paths and the learning between generations, created by the network of relationships in which Humberto Mauro participated, in Minas Gerais, gave rise to the Cataguases Cinema Cycle, included in the first movement of continuous film production in the history of Brazilian cinema and, a century later, to the Audiovisual Pole of the same city, which, in the midst of the crisis that hit culture, has been managing to maintain its production. This article is about narratives of Mauro's legacy for the ways of thinking and making films in Brazil: two biographies, one written by Ronaldo Werneck, the other, in audiovisual language, made by André Di Mauro; two biographical historiographies, one by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes and another by Sheila Schwartzman; the film criticism article, by the filmmaker Glauber Rocha, who granted Mauro the title of “father of Brazilian cinema”; and interviews given by followers of the cinema learning network that preceded them. In the systematization and articulation of the narratives, we identified the perceptions of the narrators about the role played by this network in the formation of Mauro and about the legacy of the filmmaker in the configuration of Brazilian cinema.