Metanarrativa, pós-modernidade e política em Isto não é um filme e Táxi Teerã, de Jafar Panahi.

Abstract

This research discussses the use of metafictional resources on the iranian films This Is Not a Film (2010) and Taxi Tehran (2015). It is assumed that self conscience, one of the main traces of contemporary art, comes up on a context of sociocultural changes, with the development of so-called postmodernity and of an increasing demand, by the audience, for works of art and cultural products that transmit the impression of a free acess to social reality, breaking a tradition, specially on movies, of concealment of the enunciation marks. This way, self-reflexive works of art multiply, assuming itself as speeches and highlighting the traces of language in their structures. This is the case of the movies studied in this research, wich comes up on a particular political context: its author, Jafar Panahi, is forbidden of making films by a judicial conviction and the iranian movie industry is subordinate to a strict governamental restriction. For deepen the understanding of the movies in light of all this references, the study uses a qualitative methodology, wich begins with a bibliographic research and then the analysis itself, based on categories identified on a previous review. From this, it was noted that the films tackle, on an extreme level, the borders between fiction and non fiction, both as a way of denounce the injustice conviction and claim Panahi's freedom, and also as a way of problematize the limits and potentialities of films and art in general, extending the old discussion about the relation between art and reality.