Three hypotheses about family documentary cinema in Argentina (2001-2021)
Tres hipótesis sobre el cine documental familiar en Argentina (2001-2021)
Três hipóteses sobre o documentário familiar na Argentina (2001-2021)
| 2022 | |
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Argentinian documentary cinema first-person documentary family-relationship documentary people family and politics cine documental argentino documental en primera persona documental familiar pueblo familia y política documentário argentino documentário em primeira pessoa documentário familiar povo família e política |
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| Español | |
| Universidad Católica del Uruguay | |
| LIBERI | |
| https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/2932 | |
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| Sumario: | This paper addresses a filmic corpus of recent Argentinian first-person documentaries, in which the filmmaker is interested in one of her relatives. In this regard, we hold three hypotheses. Firstly, that the privilege granted to family as an object of inquiry is related to the removal of the category of people, as an effect of the dictatorship and post-dictatorship. Secondly, we ask whether this focus entails a familialist retreat, concluding that the historical-political dimension is not necessarily neglected. In this sense, three groups of films are distinguished within the corpus: one in which the political is absent, another one in which it is subordinated to the private sphere and, lastly, one in which the private and the public become indiscernible. Thirdly, that it is impossible to separate the search for self-identity present in these films from collective history. |
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