Folkcommunication and Peripheral Youth on Two Wheels: Audiovisual Fabulations in Cavalo de Aço

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https://doi.org/10.5212/RIF.v.23.i50.0004

Abstract

The article analyzes the short film Cavalo de Aço, an audiovisual investigation developed with marginalized youth in the Serrinha neighborhood, in Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil). Based on the concept of folkcommunication (LUYTEN, 2001; BELTRÃO, 1980), it discusses how motorcycles operate as symbolic and affective devices in the construction of imaginaries, displacements, and forms of cultural resistance. The guiding question of the study is: in what ways do the everyday uses of motorcycles by peripheral youth generate audiovisual narratives and fabulations that reinvent the urban territory? A research-creation approach is proposed (KASTRUP, 2011; FADEL & PEIXOTO, 2017), in which the artistic gesture is intertwined with practices of listening, improvisation, and collective invention. The work challenges traditional modes of representation by creating moving images that emerge from the periphery and affirm other ways of existing, narrating, and communicating.

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Author Biography

Valquíria Aparecida Passos Kneipp, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Profesora del Curso de Periodismo de la UFRN y del Programa de Posgrado en Comunicación (PPGCOM) de la UFC

Published

2025-08-21

How to Cite

DE OLIVEIRA, R.; PASSOS KNEIPP, V. A. . Folkcommunication and Peripheral Youth on Two Wheels: Audiovisual Fabulations in Cavalo de Aço . Revista Internacional de Folkcomunicação, [S. l.], v. 23, n. 50, p. 75–87, 2025. DOI: 10.5212/RIF.v.23.i50.0004. Disponível em: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/folkcom/article/view/24951. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.