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Francoism, the Spanish Transition and the documentary gaze at mental illness
2015
Resumen: Este articulo aborda la mirada cinematografica sobre las instituciones psiquiatricas y la concepcion de la enfermedad mental del franquismo desde la optica antagonica que comenzo a promoverse desde distintos ambitos sociales, politicos y culturales durante la transicion espanola. Partiendo de una aproximacion historica cuyo objetivo es contextualizar la concepcion de la psiquiatria franquista se procede a continuacion al analisis formal y tematico de cuatro documentales clave de la transicion espanola: El desencanto (J. Chavarri, 1976), El asesino de Pedralbes (G. Herralde, 1978) Animacion en la sala de espera (C. Rodriguez Sanz y M. Coronado, 1978-81) y Cada ver es... (A. Garcia d…
Experimentación e innovación en el cortometraje documental latinoamericano moderno: las experiencias de Brasil, Cuba y México/ Experimentation and in…
2017
Resumen: El presente artículo aborda el cine moderno latinoamericano a partir de la articulación del cortometraje y el documental en tanto agentes fundamentales en el asentamiento de este fenómeno en la región. Para ello hemos escogido tres países –México, Brasil y Cuba– que han atravesado realidades disímiles en cuanto a la conformación de una tradición cinematográfica industrial. De este modo, corroboramos en un primer apartado el rol del cortometraje documental en las tres cinematografías contempladas a través del desarrollo del mismo a lo largo de la historia para desembocar en la renovación expresiva y semántica de los años cincuenta y sesenta. El film de corta duración se ha convertid…
Temporality in cosmopolitan solidarity : Archival activism and participatory documentary film as mediated witnessing of suffering at Europe’s borders
2019
This article develops and extends the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity to temporality through a case study of archival activism and participatory film-making. It examines mediated witnessing within the Italian online audiovisual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti, which documents and archives the experiences of contemporary migrants in Italy. The moral basis of Archivio delle memorie migranti is cosmopolitan solidarity, which is usually understood as a practice that crosses spatial and communal boundaries. However, the ethics of solidarity also bridges past, present and future generations. Through the case of Archivio delle memorie migranti, this article demonstrates the significance o…
La forma cinematografica del reale. Teorie, pratiche, linguaggi: da Bazin a Netflix
2020
El color del camaleón: un testimonio valiente para la sociedad chilena
2017
The film El color del camaleón (2017) by Andrés Lübbert, which has great cinematic and content merits, can be considered as an important part of Chilean films on memory and post-memory. I focus on its contribution to Chilean memory and the reconstruction of the truth through the unveiling, in particular, of cruel methods of forced recruitment used by the dictatorship’s secret services. They were used as a further tool to instill terror in society, and as a way of submission and control of the population.
«Between Piante and Libri primi». Territory, writing and rights of an ecclesiastic institution. Monreale, XV-XVIIth centuries
2018
The article focuses on the genesis, organization and representation of the territory of an important ecclesiastical institution of Early Modern Sicily, the Archbishopric of Monreale, in a microanalytic perspective. Such an historical space has its very own peculiar economic, juridical, political and institutional features, as it includes and is part of dense, stratified and at the same time heterogeneous and changing realities. This research aims to shed some light on the close relationship between the Archbishopric as a holder of feudal rights on land and on men, and the production of written and drawn documents. Cross-referencing a variety of sources, such as maps and fiscal, judicial and…
Reconstruction of the Rib Vaults of the Hypostyle Hall in the Maniace Castle of Siracusa After the 1693 Earthquake
2016
ABSTRACTBuilt in the first half of the 13th century on behalf of the Emperor Frederick II, the Maniace Castle of Siracusa focuses its enigma in the hypostyle hall (which was composed of 25 quadripartite rib vaults) and the design criteria adopted for its implementation. Recent research and a careful rereading of the documentary “restoration project” after the earthquake of 1693 have offered new tools to understand the construction techniques and building procedures for the entire organism. It has been possible to demonstrate that the different material (white limestone and volcanic stone) used for the vaults is, in fact, a product of reconstruction. The constructive node, which historiograp…
Witnessing the experience of European bordering : watching the documentary Under den samme himmel in an immigration detention centre
2019
This article draws on theories of bordering and mediated witnessing to examine a documentary film that mediates migrants’ experiences of bordering in Europe. My analysis of Under den samme himmel/Days of Hope shows how the film captures the multiplicity of bordering practices, from geographical to socio-cultural borderings. The analysis is informed by watching and discussing the film in an immigrant detention facility in Finland with people who experienced and eye-witnessed experiences similar to those depicted in the film. This creates a sense of co-presence of the experiential landscapes in the border zones, and the film invites viewers to consider borders not as lines in the landscape, b…
Il cinema didattico di Roberto Omegna tra propaganda fascista e divulgazione scientifica
2019
Il seguente articolo parla dei film scientifici ed educativi prodotti da Roberto Omegna per l’Istituto Luce durante il periodo fascista. Dall’analisi dei documentari emergono due prospettive: quella dello scienziato, il cui orientamento era positivista, e quello del regime, che tentò di strumentalizzare le pellicole scientifiche a scopi propagandistici. Rimanendo fedele a se stesso e alla verità dei fatti che desiderava produrre attraverso i suoi film, Omegna fu il pioniere di una pedagogia documentaristica che vedeva nella divulgazione scientifica un modo per condurre le nuove generazioni sulla via del progresso. The following paper is about the scientific and educational movies produced b…
Challenging Old and New Images Representing the Cambodian Genocide: The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)
2018
This article focuses on the images used over four decades to represent the Cambodian genocide in photography, cinema, visual arts and the media as the basis for analyzing the documentary-memoir directed by Rithy Panh, The Missing Picture. First, there is a paucity of images which depict, evoke or allude to the crimes perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979); second, scholars raise objections about whether any image can adequately depict a catastrophic event such as genocide. This article begins by categorizing the Cambodian genocide iconography according to the modality of the visual production. After briefly classifying this visual output in four categories (perpetrator images, liberator…