And... if Bazin and Lefebvre met Freud in a cinema session? Notes for a case study of albinism on the big screen

Abstract

Commercial filmmakers manage to create stereotypes applied to characters by materializing them as violent, murderous, and idiotic beings. Cultural prejudice can spread on a large scale in the cultural film industry a negative representation of human segments such as albinos. Faced with the consideration of an anthropology of groups affected by albinism, which are excluded by contemporary urban society, we studied how cinema sees, in general, people with this hereditary genetic condition of skin problems (sensitivity to sunlight) and deficiency of eyesight. Based on a dialectical critical
methodological attitude, specific research and film analysis was promoted; interview of a filmmaker reconciling with an existing bibliographic reading on the subject, with André Bazin and Henri Lefebvre as main authors, in addition to the specially invited epistemologist Sigmund Freud. The result is expressed by the epistemological dialogue verified before a new filmic aesthetic vision of albinism.