Abderrahmane Sissako; Bamako; Fabulation; Political cinema; Speech acts.

The young version of Clara (a character in the feature film Aquarius) is played by Bárbara Colen (a self-declared black woman) and, when older, by Sônia Braga (a selfdeclared white woman). This article intends to think about the aesthetic, affective and narrative elements that mediate whiteness and blackness when convenient and because of that it obliterates non-white racialized traits of a black body-subjectivity. For such, the film’s scenes were juxtaposed to extra-filmic archives that bring the two actresses. Thus, Clara’s case enables a glimpse in the Brazilian whitening project as an embodied memory that flows into those responsible for pre-production, cinematographic development and the film’s parabolic media products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]