ABSTRACT
At the crossroad of the autobiographic genre and cinema in the context of the legacy of Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, this article aims to investigate singular modes of enunciation and subjectivation as staged by two autobiographical documentaries: “Os dias com ele” (Brazil, 2012), by Maria Clara Escobar, and “Diário de uma busca”, by Flávia Castro (Brazil, 2011). Filmed by daughters of political exiles and prisoners, these works produce two different types of positions of a female in search of a paternal figure, in which exile, memory, testimony and even argument about the movie in progress coexist. Confronted with the problem of the daughter’s secondary role in comparison to the father’s politicals utopias, faced with the experience of the failure of the left in Brazil, “Os dias com ele” and “Diário de uma busca” propose a journey from the private to the political and from the father to the country through an ethics of precariousness.
Keywords
female position; autobiographical documentary; exile; argument; precariousness