L’exil et le retour dans les journaux filmés de Jonas Mekas et David Perlov

Abstract

This article retraces two parallel trajectories of the diary film through an analysis of Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972) and Diary (David Perlov, 1973-1983), two contemporaneous autobiographical works centered on both the experience of exile and the return to the homeland. Taking as a point of departure the theories developed by Hamid Naficy in his study of exilic cinema, we will undertake a comparative analysis of the transnational spaces constructed by Mekas and Perlov and ultimately reflect on the specificity of the diary film as a mode of representing exile.

Keywords

• Jonas Mekas
• David Perlov
• diary film
• exile
• memory
• autobiography