Against history telling. Haptic bodies and images in the Argentine film (Lisandro Alonso and Lucrecia Martel)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-12-2011

Abstract

Departing from a poetics of abstention and from a critical act of the forms and discourses we are familiar with, Argentine filmmakers Lisandro Alonso and Lucrecia Martel give the body and its attitudes and postures a central place in the production of the cinematographic image. They are not interested in telling a story, but rather in the materiality of the image itself, in the textural rather than in the referential, in the inmanent and corporeal experience of art. The figures that appear in their films facilitate the moving forward of time, not of the action. These films are not to be categorized as "slow," since what they really expose is a new ontology of image, and because of it, a new ontological status of the espectator is rendered. Their approach to the body would indicate that it is possible for art to open up the chance of theorizing our present from a political perspective.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana

First Page

401

Last Page

420

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