O bacurau voa no crepúsculo: filme, cultura política viral, Covid-19, assombrações e futuros

This essay is one of a series on the arts and forms emergent common sense in globally interconnected, politically-semiotically-media fraught, Anthropocenic twenty-first century. The restlessly play hopscotch with temporalities locations. Since days Third Cinema, auteur cinema, national cinemas, films have attempted complex strategies, often mobilizing local international genre film subversively against themselves to create cinema laughter, self-recognition, critique. 2019 Cannes Jury Award-winning Bacurau provides an addictively detailed, yet accessible, intervention into struggles over Covid-19, authoritarianism, erosion indigenous, black, other marginalized citizens’ rights. As such, it kind social drama that encompasses expanding breaches fabric beyond its text reworking temporal relations between pasts futures.