By Pedro Henrique Ferreira

Talking about bodies in cinema, its physical presence on the screen, has somewhat become a common place on current debates. It might be something of a growing recent interest on phenomenology as a tool to understand and deal with contemporary cinematic experience – at least for a couple of authors (Vivian Sobchack, Steven Shaviro, among others), notions of a more tactile and sensuous approach to the image, to a certain degree, indebted to Merleau Ponty’s visual theories.