Kaiak (Dec 2014)
Generatio aequivoca. Sottosuoli dell'immaginario nella filmografia dei Quay Btothers
Abstract
This essay is an introduction to the Quay Brothers'poetics.Since Seventies the works of the two filmmakers have investigated the undergrounds of imagery produced by the collapse of all symbolic orders. There are many cultural influences involved in their work: the surrealistic cinema, the central Europeanliterature (Schulz, Kafka, Walser...), the artistic avant-garde. Following Shulz's imaginary theoryof the generatio aequivocathe Quay Brothers can show the contingency and the unpredictability of the forms generation. In this way they can putthe rest of symbolic orderson the same level as the basic materials from whichthe generatio aequivocaoriginates.
