Kira Muratova, autora na margem do estado censor

Abstract

This article investigates Kira Muratova's historical and biographical trajectory, analyzing how her authorial vision developed within the context of Soviet Union cultural policies. The central objective is to understand how her early films outline a singular aesthetic language, challenging the narrative and formal conventions of official Soviet cinema. The analysis is structured along two complementary axes: the first examines the interaction between state cultural guidelines and their impacts on production processes, aesthetics, and cinematographic language; the second conducts a critical review of the director's early films, with emphasis on Brief Encounters (1967), her first solo film. This integrated approach allows us to demonstrate how her formal and narrative experiments anticipate an authorial aesthetic that would be consolidated in her subsequent productions.