Eztetyka

Aesthetics of Hunger

"While Latin America laments its overall miseries, the foreign interlocutor cultivates the flavour of this misery, not as tragic symptom, but only as formal data in his interest field. Neither does the latin man communicate his true misery to the civilized man nor does the civilized man truly understand the latin man's misery."

"The latin hunger, therefore, is not only an alarming symptom: it is the nerve of its own society. There resides the tragic originality of the Cinema Novo before the world cinema: our originality is our hunger and our greatest misery is that, although this hunger is felt, it is not understood."

"We understand this hunger that most Europeans and Brazilians do not understand. To the European, it is a strange tropical surrealism. To the Brazilian, it is a national shame. He does not eat, but he is too ashamed to say it; and, above all, he does not know where this hunger originates. We - the ones who made these ugly, sad films, these yelled, desperate films where reason did not always have the final word - we know that the hunger is not going to be cured by the bureau plannings and that the technicolor effects do not hide but, instead, aggravate its tumours. Thus, only a culture of the hunger, undermining its own structures, can surmount itself on the quality level: the noblest cultural manifestation of hunger is violence. "

Excerpts from the text Aesthetics of Hunger, dated 1965, presented at the Latin-American Cinema Conference, in Geneva, Italy

Eztetyka of Dream

"The feeling of human colaboration renovates and reveals a new category of individual being, but, in order to have that, the old culture must be revolutionized."

"No statistic can inform the dimension of poverty. Poverty is the utmost self-destructive charge of each man."

"As while the un-reason plans revolution, reason plans repression."

"Dreaming is the only right that cannot be prohibited."

"The People is the myth of the bourgeoisie."

"The revolution is the anti-reason that communicates the tensions and rebellions of the most irrational of all fenomena, which is poverty."

"The revolution, as possession over the man that launches his life towards an idea, is the misticism travelling highest. "

"The revolutions are made in the unpredictableness of the practice of history, which is the cabala of the encounter of the irrational forces of the masses."

"The revolution is a magic because it is the unpredictable inside the overruling reason."

"The popular culture will always be a relative manifestation as long as it remains only an inspiration for an art created by artists who are still suffocated by the bougeois reasoning. "

"The popular culture is not what they technically call folklore, but the popular language in permanent historical rebellion."

Excerpts from the text Eztetyka of Dream, dated 1971, included in the book Revoluçăo do Cinema Novo

ŠTempo Glauber