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The imaginary in phagocytosis: manipulation and historical creation in photography and cinema
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Keywords

Historical cinema
War photography
Imagination
Fiction and document
Cinema and photography

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ESKINAZI, Lucas; BARROCAS, Filipe dos Santos; BASILIO, Elcio. The imaginary in phagocytosis: manipulation and historical creation in photography and cinema. Revista Visuais, Campinas, SP, v. 12, p. 179–200, 2026. DOI: 10.20396/visuais.v12i00.22114. Disponível em: https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/visuais/article/view/22114. Acesso em: 10 oct. 2026.

Abstract

This article examines how cinema and photography participate in the construction of the historical imaginary by challenging the boundaries between document and fiction. Taking photography as a material trace and temporal operation, it analyzes The Dreadful Details, by Éric Baudelaire, highlighting the ambiguity between staging and archive in the iconography of war. Drawing on Susan Sontag, Harun Farocki, and films by Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marcelo Gomes, and José Padilha, it discusses the truth effects of images and the filling in of the real through representation. By articulating landscape, ruin, and reconstruction, it proposes the historical imagination as an unstable field in which materiality and fiction coexist.

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