Patricio Guzmán and the Aesthetics/Eethics of Water

Authors

  • Sabrina Grillo Universidad Paris Est Créteil France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7589

Keywords:

Patricio Guzmán, Chile, documentary, memory, water

Abstract

The relationship between history, politics and memory has been a structuring milestone in the work of Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. With El botón de nácar (2015), the director intends to reflect on this relationship under the prism of water. It turns out to be the guiding thread of two main stories that Guzmán considers in the same dynamic: the Patagonia peoples and their extermination on the one hand, and the victims of the Pinochet dictatorship on the other. In addition to fulfilling an obvious narrative function, we will see how water tends to have a symbolic reach and becomes a vector of memory. The article proposes a reflection organized around the protagonism of water to highlight its ambivalence at a notional and formal level in the conception of documentary. The notion of memory that went through the work of Guzmán, the history of Chile, both related thanks to the water that reaches an unprecedented symbology will be addressed.

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Author Biography

Sabrina Grillo, Universidad Paris Est Créteil

Sabrina Grillo is associate professor of Spanish contemporary history at the University of Paris Est Créteil in France (IMAGER laboratory). His doctoral thesis dealt with the image of Juan Negrín from the analysis of various types of archives (speech, memories, photography, cinema). His most recent communications and publications deal with the role of the image (cinema and photography) in the service of the writing of history. She received an award sponsored by the Commission Nationale Française and UNESCO for the writing of an essay on ethical limits in the dissemination of information

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Published

2020-01-29

How to Cite

Grillo, S. (2020). Patricio Guzmán and the Aesthetics/Eethics of Water. Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, (20), 15–28. https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7589

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No. 20 (2020)

Section

Disputas por la memoria histórica: memorias hegemónicas, memorias contrahegemónicas y alternativas

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