NELISITA: NARRATIVES NYANEKA, BY RUY DUARTE DE CARVALHO:

NELISITA: NARRATIVES NYANEKA, BY RUY DUARTE DE CARVALHO: Reflections on language and cinematographic speech

Abstract

Abstract: For a long time, when discussing cinematographic language, it was believed that the “mechanical eye” of cinema could erase the literary illusion of style, of the way of telling. It was enough to put a camera on a street and leave it filming passersby to create a kind of cinematographic report, of cinéma verité. The ability to narrate from cinema is certainly what brings him the closest to literature, despite having very different languages ​​and rules. This work, which is a study of the film Nelisita, narratives Nyaneka, by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, seeks, first, to observe the way in which the director recreated, in his film, the Nambalisite myth, narrated by Carlos Estermann in the work Cinquenta contos bantos Southwest Angola. Then, it addresses the representation of history, which includes the analysis of elements such as staging, framing, soundtrack and chaining. Such analysis aims to elucidate the uniqueness of the aesthetic language used by Carvalho to compose his cinematographic discourse, which is to value the resistance of the myth of the Ovakwanyama and all that it represents from the cultural point of view to Angola