Editorials
A voice to the spirit of humanity
In post-modern society with evidence of deep transformation in relationships ranging from all of the process of work to identifying with the world we live in, new technology appears as a tool essential for human development. This is not so surprising if we believe that all and any technology – with a primordial example in the invention of the wheel - has directed the paths along which humanity travels. Technology is (and was) the one to indicate trends in the social realm such as new relations and production in work, with society ceaselessly thinking anew concerning formal education, in face of the abundant amount of information to which we have access.
Cinema arose owing to the advancement of technology and has found support there so that it might quite simply become an
Art. Without scientific studies on mechanics and optics - among others, probably - it would have been far more complicated for us, as though by magic, to discover Cinema. A history of this art also shows intimacy with its scientific support. It might be thought that there would be much to wonder at with such new possibilities. We often walk into a movie theater expecting to see and recognize the most recent technological processes, computer graphics re-creating environments and inciting new understanding.
Really, it is not difficult to allow such a fascination to cover over something greater that Cinema shows us. As has been said and acknowledged by the most dissonant voices - cinema is ART. And, as such, it arises to break any form of power that attempts to restrict human liberty in its countless shades. It incessantly creates and re-creates a new discourse; but touches for values that are essentially human. At times, so much technology, so much technical support disappears, to voice the spirit of humanity. It renders pyrotechnics mute and apparently useless and reveals dreams, the entrails of the mind, and labyrinths of desire.
Not losing the vision of learning from the past, as we, at the same time, project ourselves into the future (as such, invariably nebulous and uncertain) that appears tirelessly at the next corner, is to have as a basis, a belief in education, a process of constant learning between tensions of learning and teaching. SESC São Paulo supports the Mostra precisely because it believes in the renovating powers of permanent education endeavoring to establish itself among other forms also in support of activities that will cause us to reflect, to benefit and to shape.
May Cinema remain an educational process in the transformation of citizens and may its supports evolve more and more, in the sense
of making us more and more human.
A good Mostra to all.
Danilo Santos de Miranda
Diretor Regional do SESC São Paulo