Haunting photographs and temporal landscapes: Remembering through traces in La idea de un lago/The Idea of a Lake (Mumenthaler 2016)

Buesa, Andrés (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This article explores the links between memory and materiality in the Argentine film La idea de un lago/The Idea of a Lake. It assumes that material memory, understood as the process of remembrance that results from the engagement with material traces of the past (objects, places, landscapes), is a recurrent trope by which contemporary documentary filmmakers criticize official discourses on memory from the Kirchners’s era. In this context, it reads La idea de un lago as a fictional text that performs this mode by using photographs and landscape – as those traces of the past that bring it to the present – to embody the conflicting relationship that children of the disappeared hold with the traumatic absence of a parent. At the level of cultural memory, this translates into a narrative of the dictatorship that does not problematize – as non-fictional work did – but rather reinforces kirchnerist politics of memory.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1386/slac_00101_1

Año: 2024

Publicado en: STUDIES IN SPANISH & LATIN AMERICAN CINEMAS 20, 1 (2024), 23-39
ISSN: 2050-4837

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.105 - Visual Arts and Performing Arts (Q3) - Multidisciplinary (Q4) - Communication (Q4) - Cultural Studies (Q4)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H23-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/FPU19-03436
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-123836NB-I00

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)