Memory and body of a resistant childhood: an analysis of Kamchatka, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation and Infância clandestina

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the films The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006), by Cao Hamburger; Kamchatka (2002), by Marcelo Piñeyro; and Infância clandestina (2011), by Benjamin Ávila, the Brazilian military dictatorial context in 1970 and the Argentinean context in 1976 and 1979 will be approached, having as theoretical basis the discussion of the rescue of memory as means of identity construction, based on authors such as Jeanne Marie Gagnebin (2014), Beatriz Sarlo (2012) and Márcio Selligman-Silva (2003). The films express the trauma experienced in both countries under the playful perspective of the children of militants whose parents went underground. The framing brings to the foreground the marks experienced in the child’s body, which, when narrated, suture the memories of a past marked by the practice of torture.

Keywords
memory; body; children’s narrative; cinema; military dictatorship