The Past as Metastasis: Archive, Memory and Colonialism in the Poetics of Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi

This article based on the analysis of three representative films, From the Polo to the Equatore (Dal Polo all’Equatore, 1986), Images of the Orient-Vandal Tourism (Immagini dell’Oriente: turismo da vandali, 2001) and Barbaric Land (Pays barbare, 2013), will be examining how we can think abo...

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Autor: Morales Sosa, Isdanny
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/45318
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/escena/article/view/45318
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:cinema
documentary films
film archives
colonialism
cine
documental
archivos audivisuales
colonialismo
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Sumario:This article based on the analysis of three representative films, From the Polo to the Equatore (Dal Polo all’Equatore, 1986), Images of the Orient-Vandal Tourism (Immagini dell’Oriente: turismo da vandali, 2001) and Barbaric Land (Pays barbare, 2013), will be examining how we can think about the cinematographic methodologies of Gianikian-Ricci Lucchi in relation to a political cinema. We will analyze their relevance, mainly from the work with archive material, for the generation of a type of cinema that puts in evidence the colonialisms and fascisms of the past through an exercise of memory that delves, not in the great History, but in concrete faces, gestures, practices and objects not only of the victims, but also of the victimizers, configuring a poetics that deals with the past density of our present.