The essay film as poetic thought
a study of Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi
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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.3.n.1.pp48-69Keywords:
Essay film, Poetic, Juana Bignozzi, Argentinian cinema, Creative processAbstract
This article investigates contemporary essay film and its intersections with self-representation, metacinema, performativity, and poetry based on the Argentine film Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi (2019), by Mercedes Halfon and Laura Citarella. Considering the difficulty of systematizing film essays, stemming from the breadth of its narrative strategies and the intersections it establishes with other cinematic forms, the research simultaneously adopts a theoretical and interpretive approach, guided by film analysis and dialogue with the theories of the essays, both in their literary and cinematographic forms. It is suggested that in the case study at hand, rather than a formalistic stylistic component, the “poetic” constitutes an essential element of the film as essay, allowing it to transcend purely argumentative discourse and establish modes of thinking that combine subjectivity and criticism.
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