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Grassroots activist video documentary in Brazil and the construction of new cultural identities: the case of the Homeless Workers Movement

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 3-04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13504630.2013.817647

1363-0296

Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

In 2005 the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (Homeless Workers Movement), operating in the Brazilian state of São Paulo since the 1990s, created its Brigada de Guerrilha Cultural (Cultural Guerrilla Brigade). The Brigade's responsibility was to produce through cultural activities such as theatre, music, poetry and film production the Movement's own political culture. The Brigade, which worked simultaneously as advertiser and agent of insurrection and militant expression, lasted until 2007. The central focus of this article is the activist documentary video that was produced within this context and its influence on identity formation. The article discusses more precisely how political video documentaries took part in a broader social and cultural project, contributing in this way to processes of transformation of community identity.