Souza, Marise Berta de2018-01-292018-01-292017-07In: Gama. - Lisboa, 2017-. - Vol. 5, nº10 (Jul./Dez. 2017), p. 83-91http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31224The article investigates the creative process and the filmic poetics of Fernando Belens. It is intended to observe his aesthetic choices implied in two recurring assertions in his filmography: the body and the politics. For this will be highlighted elements present in his short films reiterated in his first feature film, Pau-Brazil (2009/2014). It is concluded that in the work of Fernando Belens representations of the ways of the body and of politics are legitimating their pathporBelens, FernandoFilmesCorpoPolíticaEstéticaTeoria da arteO corpo e a política na poética fílmica de Fernando BelensBody and politics in the films of Fernando Belensjournal article