Sensory experience and sociability in IPPMG: when the film goes to hospital

Abstract

This article uses the cartographic method of Virginia Kastrup (2009) to analyze the cinema experience at activities realized by the educational project Cinema para Aprender e Desaprender – Cinead (Cinema for Learning and Unlearning – Cinead), which works with children hospitalized in the wards of the Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira – IPPMG (Institute of Pediatrics Martagão Gesteira – IPPMG). With the mapping method and the literature review, our intent is to observe and discuss the socio-cultural practices whose heart is the enjoyment and the filmic production. To carry them out, it is assumed that those practices are close to the sensory experience - like Michel Maffesoli (1998) called the contemporary social facts, whose empathy and sensitivity are fundamental aspects - found in that hospital. The main question of this study is whether the experiences with film allow the construction of sociability among the participants of the project and the symbolic redefinition of space in an environment where relationships are marked by unpredictability daily.