The autobiographical outbreak of the 1980s and 1990s
While all documentary films retain an interest in some portion of th world out there- recording, and less frequently interrogation, at times with the intent to persuade and with varying degrees of attention to formal issues the essayists gaze is drawn inward with equal intensity- That inward gase accounts for the digressive and fragmentary character of the essayistic, as Andre Tournons assessment of Montaigne essais ssuggest: Thought can abandon its theme at any time to examine its own workings, questions is acquiered knowledge or exploit its incidental potentialiets. Pg.85 .. 31 a quality shared by a all film essays is the inscription of a blant, self-searching authorial presence.
The essay film constructs such an espectatorial position by adopting
a certain rethorical structure: rather than answering all the questions that it raises, and delivering a complete, closed argument, the essays rhethoric is such that it opens up problems, and interrogates the spectator; Plantinga - voz retorica con la no ficcin (Retorica y representacin el cine de no ficcin) El diario como gnero del margen (identidades y discursos) Cruzar generos y fronteras para unirse a otras formas. (travelogue, notebook, chornical) Huberman: Designa precisamente la potencia soberana de lo que no aparece de maenra visible. El acontecimiento de la virtus, lo que es en potencia, lo que es en potencia, no da nunca una direccin a seguir por el ojo, ni un sentido unvoco de lectura. Esto no quiere decir que est desnudo de sentido. Al contrario saca de su especie de negativadad la fuera de un despliegue mltiple, hace posible no uno o dos significados unvocos, sino constelaciones enteras de sentido que estn ah como redes de la s que tendremos que aceptar el no conocer nunca la totalidad ni la clausura, obligados como estamos a recorrer sencillamente de maner incompleta el laberinto virtual, pg.30 Diario: open-ended, limitless and interminable. the diarys only necessary conclusion is the deat of its author. The diary is a record of death. It records death of others, the diarists own progress towards death and, even when it seems to braoch other subjects, death always remains the diarys ture centre, its sole concern,
because what it is founde on as a literary gener is the inscription
of meaning. APUNTES: Any notebook film will always be an act of montage and reordering, no matter how minimal, on the actual magma of audiovisual notetaking (149) Carelessness of the quality of the shootin testifies to the occasional, ephemeral nature of the notebook style. Pg.161 CUESTIONAMIENTO TEORICO artists ould use the self-portrait as a menas o drawing attention to the medium and the process of production of the work, to show off their skill, or to experiment eith technique or stlye) EINSESTEIN - NOTAS PARA rodar el capital. hechos Rithcer Ideas nociones mentales retratar un concepto Belleza inteligencia (Bazin) - ANTISISTEMATICO Pienso que la atraccin intelectual no excluye en modo alguno la emocin EDITING TABLE - FAROCKI
Ayer, pens mucho en ElCapital.En su estructura, que nacer
del lenguaje cinematogrfico, en la imagen, en la etapa abierta desde ahora (con los dioses). Tomar el desarrollo banal y progresivo de una accin cualquiera. Por ejemplo, la jornada de una persona. Contarla minuciosamente,pero como un esbozo, de modo que permite comprender que se trata de una digresin. Desarrollar una situacin en concepto