Cinema and Education: the Project Moving Images and spaces of otherness

Abstract

In this article we propose to discuss the educational work with cinema in public schools as a space of creation and otherness. We will focus on the experience of the Project Images in Motion, which began in 2011. The project performs a film work in public schools and works in schools and culture points in some municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro and the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We investigated the educational work with cinema, in the space of the public school, from the experience of three schools participating in this project, all located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This is part of a major research that mapped the information available on the digital platform of the project about its history and actions and interviewed eight workers involved in the project in these three schools. The theoretical reference of the research is anchored in concepts such as cinema and education, creative activity, otherness, learning, experience and childhood and dialogues with fundamental authors - especially Alain Bergala, for whom the school should be a space of appropriation and enjoyment of cinema as art. Focusing on the experience with cinema as a space of otherness, we emphasize that when teachers, filmmakers and/or other Basic Education workers work in partnership, experimenting with cinema together with the students inside and outside the school, many learnings seem to be mobilized in all those involved in the project, changing subjectivities and building knowledge together.