THE SERTÃO AS SPACE OF ALTERITY IN THE BRAZILIAN CINEMA: An analysis of the flow narrative of Travel Because I Need, I Return Because I Love You.
Sertão. Otherness. Sertão-nation. Brazilian Cinema. Anthropophagy. Sertão-mar. Movie-device. Flow Narrative. Wandering
Starting from the understanding that the sertão presents itself as a space of symbolic exchanges widely represented in the arts that propose the self-reflexive movement of thinking "the Brazilian people", the present work analyzes the film Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo (AÏNOUZ; GOMES, 2009) understanding this as a device-film that updates the experiences of otherness through the construction of an access to the sertão that develops through the sensitive experience. Being a feature film that is part of a series of recent films that promotes fissures in the mythical landscapes hegemonically established for the sertão, doing this through proposals that demonstrate a transculturality that weakens the myth of genuine culture and of representation. Our objective is to investigate how these movements unfold within the narrative of Viajo to arrive at the conclusion that its trajectory breaks with the dichotomy of the sertão-littoral through a character who traces an errant expedition through the sertanejas landscapes and metaphorically plunges into a backlands that it is also sea