With the Corner of the Eye

Authors

  • Gustavo Fontán Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Documentary, essay film, real, gaze, film image

Abstract

The article addresses different aspects of the relationship between making films and thinkingCinema, the world and its representation on the screen, and the traces of the real in filmdiscourse. Developping his concept of «ripping», the author shapes a reflection on themodes of incidence of the real in the cinema, as an emergency in which both a revelation ofthe world and an exercise of gaze slides between the visible and the invisible.

References

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Carver, R. (1995). La vida de mi padre. Cinco ensayos y una meditación. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Norma.

Comolli, J. L. (2002). Filmar para ver. Escritos de teoría y crítica de cine. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Simurg-Cátedra La Ferla (UBA).

Fontán, G. (Director). (2003). El paisaje invisible [Película]. Argentina: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Fundación Leopoldo Marechal, Grupo Cine Arte.

Fontán, G. (Director). (2008). La orilla que se abisma [Película]. Argentina: Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Tercera Orilla Cine.

Fontán, G. (Director). (2017). El estanque [Película]. Argentina: Insomnia Films.

Ruiz, R. (2013). Poéticas del cine. Santiago, Chile: Universidad Diego Portales.

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Published

2018-11-27

How to Cite

Fontán, G. (2018). With the Corner of the Eye. Arkadin, (7), 12–18. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/arkadin/article/view/645

Issue

No. 7 (2018): Arkadin 7

Section

Tema central

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