Starting from the concept of friendship proposed by Giorgio Agamben, this essay, at the interface between aesthetics and politics, ponders upon power relations in the documentary The Soul of the Bone (Cao Guimarães, 2004). The greatest emphasis focuses on how, through this film, the filmmaker shares his existence with the hermit Dominguinhos da Pedra, as well as the reverberations that this ensures in shaping the documentary.
documentary; friendship; The Soul of the Bone (film)