Possible images:
female representation in Guida from her artist's notebook.

The present work investigates the images belonging to the artist's notebook of the animated short film Guida (2014), directed by the Brazilian animator Rosana Urbes, in order to delve into the potential poetic and representational features of the feminized bodies that emerge from there. Guida tells the story of a woman who ends her working life in an archive office after 30 years, and finds a new time for herself, giving rise to a discovery of new habits, care and pleasures. The short film raises a character's relationship with time to come and with the rediscovery of the body, continuously reflected in a new choreography of his days, where loose, light and free movements inhabit.

On the animator's website, a gallery of images about the creative process brings to light an exercise in the private sphere: small sketches and fragments from her notebook show the search for the line, the weight and the movements that the animated images will have. of the short film This revealed intimacy gives rise to the possibility of a sensitive approach that allows us to reach the arché. that gap between the blank paper and the first sketch of what will be the material construction of the image.

Taking as a trigger the question about the different forms of vindication of feminized bodies within the contemporary animated language, a reading of the image-sketch is proposed as an attempt to shift the gaze, moving away from the work as a result to revisit the routes processes of the artist and the possibilities offered by the different animation techniques to be able to print gestures on/from their materialities.

Author: Maria Constanza Curatitoli.