“Ebó imagético”

um experimento conceitual para a compreensão do Cinema Negro Brasileiro como ferramenta de expurgo da colonialidade

Abstract

The article investigates how Brazilian Black cinema portrays violence and death of Black people and the impact of these representations on the construction of a social imaginary. Based on the analysis of works such as “Rapsódia para um Homem Negro” (Gabriel Martins, 2015), “Rio das Almas e Negras Memórias” (Taize Inácia and Thaynara Rezende, 2019), “M8: when death helps life” (Jeferson De, 2020) and Egum (Yuri Costa, 2020), the author proposes the concept of “imagetic ebó”. This concept aims to understand visual narrative as a healing ritual, allowing a symbolic purge of racist crystallizations in cinema and a confrontation of the necropolitics that mark black trajectories. The study suggests that Brazilian Black Cinema not only denounces violence, but also acts as a tool of resistance and recreation of subjectivities, promoting a reflection on the survival of social death, continuous slavery and coloniality.