A heteropia of images: a combat against the cliches in the film After the rain

Abstract This article’s discussion is based on Michel Foucault’s concepts of utopian body and heterotopias, as well as on the images of Gilles Deleuze and of the movie After the Rain. The film has as its main setting a school in the state of Bahia, where some students compete for the control of the student’s council, while others create a pirate radio to spread anarchistic ideas. These articulations take place in the period of the post-dictatorship years in Brazil, in 1985. In this context, the article intends to think the construction of counter spaces in the images presented by the film, considering the framing, the timing of the shots in the editing of the film, and the composition of the frames. This way, the article proposes to develop a filmic analysis towards the relationship between cinema, education and philosophy, from a cartographic construction of the heterotopias of the images.

摘要 本文的论述基于米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）的乌托邦身体（utopian body）与异托邦（heterotopias）概念，以及吉尔·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）的影像理论与电影《雨之后》（After the Rain）。该影片以巴西巴伊亚州（Bahia）的一所学校作为核心叙事场景：部分学生为争夺学生会控制权展开角逐，另有学生群体创办海盗电台（pirate radio）以传播无政府主义思想。上述情节均发生于1985年巴西军事独裁统治终结后的转型时期。在此语境下，本文拟结合影片的镜头构图、剪辑中的镜头时序以及画面结构，探讨该片影像中对抗性空间的建构。据此，本文尝试从影像异托邦的制图式建构出发，开展一场针对电影、教育与哲学三者关系的电影分析研究。