Descrição
The article analyzes the documentary Waiting for the Carnival (Brazil, 2019), directed by Marcelo Gomes, about work in the city of Toritama, a jeans production center, in Pernambuco, Brazil. The hypothesis is that the narrative not only registers the neoliberal rationality that guides the workers of the city, but also highlights and confronts it in film form. Therefore, even considering interviews as an important element of the documentary, I try to examine other audiovisual strategies that disclosure this power that authors such as Byung-Chul Han and Dardot and Laval consider affable or even invisible.||Neste artigo, analiso o documentário Estou me guardando para quando o Carnaval chegar (Brasil, 2019), de Marcelo Gomes, sobre o trabalho na cidade de Toritama, centro de produção de jeans, no agreste pernambucano. A hipótese é de que a narrativa não apenas registra a racionalidade neoliberal que conduz as personagens, mas a desafia por meio da forma fílmica. Logo, ainda que as entrevistas sejam parte importante do documentário, busco examinar outras estratégias audiovisuais que atuam na evidenciação desse poder que autores como Byung-Chul Han e Dardot e Laval consideram afável ou mesmo invisível.||In this article, I analyze the documentary Waiting for the Carnival (Brazil, 2019), directed by Marcelo Gomes, about work in the city of Toritama, a jeans production center, in Pernambuco, Brazil. The hypothesis is that the narrative not only registers the neoliberal rationality that guides the workers of the city, but also highlights and confronts it in film form. Therefore, even considering interviews as an important element of the documentary, I try to examine other audiovisual strategies that disclosure this power that authors such as Byung-Chul Han and Dardot and Laval consider affable or even invisible.
