Secret and generational transmission. The documentary film before the family memory
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7602Keywords:
Memory transmission, Crypt, Generations, Documentary Cinema, Genocide, Dictatorship.Abstract
The bonds that link each person with the preceded generations influence him in a complex way. Psychoanalysts Nicolás Abraham and Maria Torok suggests that what has not been elaborated can form a crypt, an element impregnated by secrets or unrealized duels. For these authors, the secret (s) found in the crypt can be transmitted to the next generation. This theoretical perspective has been of interest to think about the effects of the experience of going through and surviving a genocide as well as that of torture and confinement under dictatorships.
It will be from this axis that this paper intends to analyze the problem of secrecy and the generational transmission of experiences of genocides and dictatorships in documentary cinema. For this purpose, the following titles will be taken: New Year Baby (Socheata Poeuv, 2006), The Flat (Arnon Goldfinger, 2011), and El color del camaleón (Andrés Lübbert, 2017). Although each one presents different historical cases and experiences, the three titles have certain characteristics that relate them, becoming suggestive tools to investigate not only in the transmission of trauma between generations but also in the dynamics of family memory.
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