Yo te digo que el mundo es así: giro performativo en el documental chileno contemporáneo

Abstract

Abstract: Contemporary documentary film production is going through amoment in which the documentary filmmaker’s reflection becomes a strong element of the narrative, as well as their motivations, and even an interference with the film’s object. In Latin America, although these documentary films are not numerous, they are innovative in their language. Performance documentary films, hybrid productions by which the film is a process and not a means to understand the world; in which the author/character builds a sensitive discourse from their own subjective vision of the world. In the Chilean case, this modalityis concerned with the country’s identity and its historical memory, issues linked to the experience of almost 20 years of military dictatorship. Chile-La Memoria Obstinada, by Patricio Guzmán, La Flaca Alejandra, by Carmen Castillo, and En un Lugar del Cielo, by Alejandra Carmona, are three documentary films from the nineties that are part of this new trend in documentary filmmaking.

Keywords

• Chile
• Memory
• Subjectivity
• Contemporary documentary