GEO-GRAFIAS DO SUB-COMUM E CONSTELAÇÕES AFETIVAS NOS CINEMAS NEGROS DE GABRIEL MARTINS

This article analyzes Gabriel Martins’ films Nada (2017) and Mars One (2022) through the categories of the undercommons  and afrofabulation, highlighting the protagonism of Black children and youth. We argue that these works create undercommon geographies and affective constellations that destabilize linear time and hegemonic regimes of visibility, establishing alternative grammars for thinking Black childhood and youth in Brazil. Bia’s refusal in Nada and the trajectories of Deivinho and Eunice in Mars One show how contemporary Black cinema fabulates possible worlds through everyday life and critical imagination. By articulating cinema, geography, and education, the article proposes an analytical protocol to understand how moving images invent spatialities of resistance and trajectories of subcommon black lives.