We take cinema as an artifact to think the categories of work and leisure and experience and
aesthetics, based on the documentary Estou me guardando para quando o carnaval chegar
(2019), by Marcelo Gomes, which portrays the life of jeans workers in the Pernambuco city of
Toritama. We seek to identify political, social, cultural, and aesthetic issues that cross the
narratives of the characters and the narrator of the documentary, but also the very condition of
filmic production of this plot. The methodological contribution is based on Cultural Studies, for
understanding cinema as a cultural artifact, a means of stimulating and creating thoughts and
knowledge in and for society, loaded with meanings and senses. Among the main conceptual
discussions we focus on the concepts of: reality, fiction, experience, aesthetics, narrative, and
the uberization of work. There are also some considerations about Pernambuco's cinema, with
emphasis on Marcelo Gomes' works. The research points out that the documentary Estou me
guardando para quando o carnaval chegar problematizes a new form of work organization
(which consumes much of the workers' time and alters social relations and the dynamics of the
city); and in counterpoint, reveals that moments of leisure are present in the daily experiences,
in the moments of confidence where the workers collectively dream of enjoying the carnival -
a gesture of freedom and resistance embodied by the characters. Beyond work and leisure, we
can think of the documentary as forming different audiences and languages based on the
concepts of experience and aesthetics.
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