VOCOBIOGRAFIA ESPECTRAL: ENCONTRO E ESCUTA EM HILDA HILST PEDE CONTATO

Abstract

The film Dead ones, do you live? (2018), by Gabriela Greeb, emerged from the filmmaker's encounter with an archive of over a hundred hours of recordings of the writer Hilda Hilst's voice, in which she tried to communicate with dead people through radio frequencies. Refusing a biographical bias, the film creates an audiovisual universe that seeks to converse with Hilda's poetic spirit. This article reflects on the treatment given to the acousmatic voice in the film, whose unique artistic procedures invite investigation. It proposes to think in what ways the film subverts historically calcified forms of depriving the word of any corporeality, notably of the materiality of the voice. We call spectral vocobiography the treatment given by the filmmaker to the voice archives of Hilst, with emphasis on what evolves in between presence and absence, individual and collective, fiction and reality.