Sexualidad, política del cuerpo y función socioeducativa del cine en Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie, 2018)

Silvia Guillamón Carrasco; Jorge Belmonte Arocha

doi:10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10017

Authors

Silvia Guillamón Carrasco Universitat de València, España Spain
Jorge Belmonte Arocha Universitat de València, España Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10017

Keywords:

Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, Body politics, Filmic interpellation, Biopower, Socio-Educational cinema

Abstract

This article analyses the opera prima by the filmmaker Adina Pintilie, Touch Me Not (Nu m? atinge-m?, 2018), winner of the Golden Bear and Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival. First, we look at the context of the film text, focusing on its detachment from the tradition of the so-called Romanian New Wave and its hybrid aesthetic approach, halfway between observational and experimental cinema. Secondly, we analyse the theses that the film discourse proposes in its thematization of sexuality and body. To do this, we use the Freudian theorization of sexuality and Foucaultian reflection on biopower, following Teresa de Lauretis’ approach (2008) to combine the two authors. Throughout the text we address the way in which the body becomes a space from which to think about the relationship between the individual and the social, the private and the public, the relationship with the other or with oneself. Finally, we conclude by highlighting how, with a clear political and socio-educational motivation, the movie proposes a use of a filmic interpellation that, explicitly, tries to involve spectators both intellectual and emotionally.

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Author Biographies

Silvia Guillamón Carrasco , Universitat de València, España

Silvia Guillamón Carrasco, Ph.D. Senior lecturer. Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences. Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. University of Valencia, Spain.

She has taught at the International University of Valencia and the University of Buenos Aires, and has been a visiting researcher in the United States, Argentina and Italy. Her research focuses on semiotics, feminism, gender studies, biopolitics and cinema.

Jorge Belmonte Arocha, Universitat de València, España

Jorge Belmonte Arocha. Ph.D. Senior lecturer. Department of Teaching and School Organisation. Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences. University of Valencia, Spain.

He has taught at the University Jaume I, the International University of Valencia and the University of Buenos Aires. Nowadays he teaches a doctoral seminar about media culture and audiovisual coeducation, in addition to other degree and postgraduate subjects at the University of Valencia. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Leipzig, the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Bologna.

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