The Secret of the Cave

Authors

  • Heitor Capuzzo Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2022.37099

Keywords:

Narrative, Moving images, Image analysis, Editing

Abstract

One of the side effects of the excessive use of narrative fragmentation is to dilute the human capacity to understand the world and represent it in an overall vision. The excess of articulated details enhances an increasingly atomized worldview. Investing in the collective construction of a comprehensive worldview can be an important strategy for us to rediscover an identity of being that, perhaps, we have lost in this process that we call civilization.

 

Author Biography

  • Heitor Capuzzo, Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG
    A retired Professor in the Department of Photography, Theater and Cinema at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG - Brazil). A former Professor in the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), Nanyang Technological University - Singapore. He was also Professor in the Department of Media Study (DMS) at State University of New York – University at Buffalo. He received the Master of Fine Arts and Doctoral degrees in Cinema from the School of Communications and Arts at Sao Paulo University (USP - Brazil). He is the author of the books Cinema: The Dream's Adventure, The Twilight Zone: Cinema Beyond Imagination, Alfred Hitchcock: Cinema in Construction, and Tears of Light: Romantic Drama Films and the organizer of Cinema According to the Critics of Sao Paulo. He is co-organizer of the book Reflections on Film Editing by Eduardo Leone (midia@rte/UFMG Press). He directed the short films Strange Smile - with Jose Armando Pereira da Silva (Best Film and Best Director awards in the film festivals of Gramado and Brasilia), Good Night and Jump Violeta. He was also a film critic for the newspaper Diario do Grande ABC for 10 years.

    Capuzzo was Associate Director of the Institute of Transdisciplinary Advanced Studies (IEAT) at UFMG from 2000-2003. Between 2002 and 2004 he made his post doctoral stage and was a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Animation and Digital Arts of the USC School of Cinematic Arts at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In 2005 he was a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University (ASU). He is the founding director of the midia@rte - Multimidia Laboratory at the School of Fine Arts at UFMG and was member of Conselho Superior de Cinema, a media and cinema advisory council to the President of Brazil.

    His expertise is focused in History of Cinema, Animation and Visual Effects.

References

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CARNEIRO, Alfredo. “José Saramago – o Mito da Caverna nos dias de hoje”. In: Netmundi.org –Filosofia na Rede. Disponível em: <https://www.netmundi.org/home/2017/saramago-mito-da-caverna-platao/>

JANELA da Alma (Brasil, 2001), de João Jardim e Walter Carvalho (Filme documentário).

Published

2022-04-28

Issue

Section

Articles - Thematic section

How to Cite

The Secret of the Cave. PÓS: Journal of the Arts Postgraduation Program at EBA/UFMG, Belo Horizonte, v. 12, n. 24, p. 31–55, 2022. DOI: 10.35699/2237-5864.2022.37099. Disponível em: https://periodicos-hml.cecom.ufmg.br/index.php/revistapos/article/view/37099. Acesso em: 6 oct. 2025.

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