“Between Fright and Affection”: Voices of Betrayal and Resistance in the Chilean Transition to Democracy
The present article seeks to study the film La Flaca Alejandra: vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena, made by Carmen Castillo and Guy Girard in 1994. Produced during the period of the democratic transition, the film focus on the figure of Marcia Merino (political name “La Flaca Alejandra”), far-left...
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I10-R10-article-238912019-08-03T21:21:33Z “Between Fright and Affection”: Voices of Betrayal and Resistance in the Chilean Transition to Democracy “Entre el espanto y la ternura”: voces de colaboración y resistencia en el Chile de la transición Albornoz Fariña, Ignacio Marcia Merino Carmen Castillo Transición Documental político Voz Marcia Merino Carmen Castillo Transition Political documentary Voice The present article seeks to study the film La Flaca Alejandra: vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena, made by Carmen Castillo and Guy Girard in 1994. Produced during the period of the democratic transition, the film focus on the figure of Marcia Merino (political name “La Flaca Alejandra”), far-left militant who became a collaborator of Pinochet’s regime under torture. Throughout the text, it will be argued that Castillo’s film functions as a site for the establishing of a double “mise en scène” of the ‘self’; a place where two divergent life trajectories intersect with each other: that of the filmmaker, present as well in the image, and that of the filmed subject, the “symbol of treason” Marcia Merino. As an instance of a two-fold return to the scene of the trauma, the endeavor of La Flaca Alejandra will finally be understood as an attempt to put into contact, albeit without forcing them to reach a synthesis, two irreconcilable testimonial voices. El presente artículo se propone analizar el filme La Flaca Alejandra: vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena, realizado en 1994 por Carmen Castillo y Guy Girard. Inscrita en el marco de la transición post-dictatorial, la cinta gira en torno a la figura de Marcia Merino (alias La Flaca Alejandra), militante del MIR convertida en colaboradora del régimen militar bajo la presión de sus torturadores. A lo largo del texto, se argumentará que el filme de Castillo funciona como espacio de una doble “puesta en escena del yo”; espacio en el que se cruzan dos trayectorias divergentes –la de la autora, Carmen Castillo, también presente en la imagen, y la del sujeto filmado, la colaboradora Marcia Merino. En tanto que instancia de un retorno doble a la escena del trauma, la empresa de La Flaca Alejandra, será finalmente interpretada como una tentativa de poner en contacto, aunque sin forzarlas a alcanzar una síntesis, dos voces testimoniales acaso irreconciliables Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2019-03-12 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/23891 Ética y Cine Journal; Vol. 9 Núm. 1 (2019): Cine y trauma; 27-35 2250-5415 2250-5660 10.31056/2250.5415.v9.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/23891/23433 Derechos de autor 2019 Ética&Cine Journal |
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“Between Fright and Affection”: Voices of Betrayal and Resistance in the Chilean Transition to Democracy |
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The present article seeks to study the film La Flaca Alejandra: vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena, made by Carmen Castillo and Guy Girard in 1994. Produced during the period of the democratic transition, the film focus on the figure of Marcia Merino (political name “La Flaca Alejandra”), far-left militant who became a collaborator of Pinochet’s regime under torture. Throughout the text, it will be argued that Castillo’s film functions as a site for the establishing of a double “mise en scène” of the ‘self’; a place where two divergent life trajectories intersect with each other: that of the filmmaker, present as well in the image, and that of the filmed subject, the “symbol of treason” Marcia Merino. As an instance of a two-fold return to the scene of the trauma, the endeavor of La Flaca Alejandra will finally be understood as an attempt to put into contact, albeit without forcing them to reach a synthesis, two irreconcilable testimonial voices. |
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