minimalismo absurdo na animação Morte e Vida Severina de Afonso Serpa

This work analyzes the minimalist aesthetic of the Theater of the Absurd applied to a cinematographic, cartoonist and poetic narrative called Morte e Vida Severina adapted to a cinematographic 3D animation. I analyzed the audiovisual aesthetics of an animation that mixes cartoon and woodcut techniques. It analyzes how Severino's existentialism and universalism are subtly constructed in the mise-en-scene through feelings of memorization, emptiness, deafening silence, monochromatic colors, psychological space, the universalization of the name Severino and the repetition of images iconic to sertao. The conclusion of this investigation points to a regional cinematography that feeds on the minimalistic and universal aesthetic of the Theater of the Absurd to reveal the complexity and sophistication of the ordinary man, represented on the figure of the sertanejo man, whose life’s nemesis exceeds the limits of sertao to become an universal issue, part of the world of absurd.