WHAT CAN FILMS DO IN A SCHOOL WHERE THE LIGHTS ARE NOT TURNED OFF?

FEELING OUT DIDACTIC SEQUENCES OF FILM RECEPTION WITH BREAD AND ALLEY BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Abstract

This work addresses Audiovisual Education, recognizing its growing density within the context of Visual Culture and the school environment. It aligns with academic research that narrates the relationships between audiovisual media and education through experience and first-person perspectives, mobilizing authors such as Larrosa Bondía, bell hooks, and Conceição Evaristo. The research is an embodied writing, motivated by the author's work as an Arts teacher in two CIEPs in the Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro. In a challenging context of material limitations, the study reflects on didactic sequences that seek to develop audiovisual spectatorship as a plastic and expressive construction, moving beyond mere signification or literacy. By adopting a post-structural anti-method, the research is constructed as an image-essay attentive to teachers’ knowledges and practices. The practical focus lies in pedagogical devices created from the screening of films (such as Bread and Alley, For the Birds, and Maluum), followed by expressive activities such as comic drawings, the creation of timelines, and the design of posters/invitations. These practices aim to foster students’ expression, recognizing everyday school life as a field that imposes itself upon any pretense of success or systematic organization.