Documentary as a representation of institutional collective memory

Abstract

The study of institutional collective memory, initially explored by the areas of organizational and knowledge management, is comprehensive, involving the history of the institution, as well as its practices, processes and learning accumulated over time, which leads to the need to preserve this information for future purposes. Considering documentary as a cinematographic genre that is based on the representation of reality, on real facts and events, this theoretical study aims to understand how documentary can be used as a resource for the preservation of institutional memory. To this end, bibliographical research is adopted as a methodological procedure, so that, based on works already published, it is possible to establish a relationship between institutional collective memory and documentary as a means of preserving memory. In the end, it is concluded that it is possible to interrelate these notions due to the scope of the characteristics of this cinematographic genre, functioning as a possibility of portraying institutional collective memory and its respective historical process.