GESTURE OF INTERPRETATION: EXTRA-ORDEM-GARBAGE OR DIRTY-ETHOS, IT NEEDS TO SPEAK ABOUT IDEOLOGY

Abstract

This article intends to develop a gesture of interpretation of three
documentaries whose themes turn to people who take their livelihood from the dumps
of large urban centers. The three audiovisual productions discussed here are: Ilha
das Flores (1989) by director Jorge Furtado; Boca de Lixo (1992), by Eduardo
Coutinho and Extraordinary Waste (2010), by Vik Muniz. It is going through these
three decades of looks about the "Garbage" that we want to ask ourselves how these
bodies-consumption-work are meant in the "remains"? Do these bodies mean
differently over the course of three decades? What works in this social place?
Marketplace? State? In an attempt to answer such questions, we shall see that the
ideological interpellation is something inescapable. If we put three decades of trash
documentaries (1989, 1992 and 2010) into conversation, we will see regularities
such as the indistinction of the human and the waste in a space of refuse and work.
Death and survival without frontiers in this space of the outside