Corpo-Cidade

Abstract

This article proposes to analyze and discuss the short film “Um Crime na Rua” (1955), by Olney Sao Paulo. To this end, it sought to comprehend the filmic narrative, through the Body-City interaction and think about the experiences as well as the body expressions presents in the urban space. The 1955 production, recorded in the surrounds of the city center of Feira de Santana, Bahia, is one of the most important historical records of the city's visual memory when registering the movement of its urban life. The film makes it possible to relate reflections on the functions and particularities that the bodies enunciate in the urban landscapes underlying the filmic discourse, these bodies fill and interact in the urban fabric, providing performances by social groups, situations and conventions that are protagonized in the city through relationships interpenetrating.