Rethinking cinema from its margins. Cinephilic moments and relocation in the work of Víctor Erice in the 21st centur
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2021.v23i.12373Keywords:
Víctor Erice, Spanish cinema, cinephilia, cinematographic experience, museumAbstract
This article is based on the assumption that the audio-visual production by the Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice in the first 20 years of the 21st century is especially significant to understand some important changes in the national cinema of this period. The analysis focuses on the way these works (short films, half-length films, film essays, documentaries and installations for museums) have presented different ways of reflecting the cinematographic experience. To illustrate this relation between experience and places, between the artist’s work and the film culture that surrounds it, this text leans on one the concepts most usually used to analyse his career: cinephilia. It explores however its theoretical reformulation considering the most innovative works in this field of research during the last twenty years. Based on two central categories in the methodological redefinition of cinephilia (cinephilic moment and relocation), the last part of the article will focus on the in-depth analysis of some representative works of Erice’s audio-visual production in these years.
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