O encontro de subjetividades em A pessoa é para o que nasce

Abstract

This work reflects on the encounter between subjectivities in Born to be blind (2004), by Robert Berliner. There, we can see time as an important factor which establishes a link between the director and the film characters. This documentary feature narrates the life story of Maria, Regina and Conceição, three blind sisters who make a living by singing in Brazilian fairs. During the film, the almost seven years of production and relations serve as a tool for the construction of the film narrative. In order to understand the subjectivity of relations and the shared time, we bring up Bachelard (1988), Serres (2001) and Sodré (2006) as main theorists, and to identify how these encounters are reflected in the final cut of the movie, we use Todorov (1996) and Baitello (1997), once we read the production of non-visual images as a reflection of the distribution of the sensible (Rancière, 2009). At the end of the research, we see a rather direct influence between the shared years and the mutual understanding between director and characters, which puts on screen not only the history of these women, but also the subjectivities encounter itself.