Open AccessAs muitas artes de “Santiago”, de João Moreira Salles
Author(s) -
Jacques Fux,
Darlan Roberto dos Santos
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
anuário de literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-7917
pISSN - 1414-5235
DOI - 10.5007/2175-7917.2012v17n1p156
Subject(s) - residence , documentary film , the arts , character (mathematics) , art , art history , humanities , history , sociology , visual arts , demography , mathematics , geometry
This article discusses the documentary Santiago, by João Moreira Salles, exploring the many arts of the main character Santiago. Besides being very rich in its autobiographic approach, the film allows us to establish some connections with literature and some characters of Borges and Flaubert, as it relates to performance and documentary theories. Santiago, disguised as a butler for over four decades, began to accumulate delusions. While working at the residence of the Moreira Salles, he typed 30,000 cards, classified and cataloged his own story and the “history of great men”. His notes are the record of his passage through Literature and History. The film by João Moreira Salles ensures Santiago’s posterity, in the same way that reports of Dante and the creations and inventions of Borges ensure the existence of their characters. Santiago, as a Flaubert’s copyist, lives and is reinvented on the screen through his testimony, memory, art and through the auto fictional documentary by Salles