Slashing the images, the words, the sounds, the voices.: About 2 de octubre / Lejos de Tlatelolco, from Los ingrávidos
Los Ingrávidos is a Mexican politically engaged film collective borned in 2011. Relying on Internet platforms for self-distribution, their work has recently gained critical attention and wide visibilization in experimental film festivals and other venues. They see their own work as a practice orient...
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Departamento de Cine y TV, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
2018
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| Sumario: | Los Ingrávidos is a Mexican politically engaged film collective borned in 2011. Relying on Internet platforms for self-distribution, their work has recently gained critical attention and wide visibilization in experimental film festivals and other venues. They see their own work as a practice oriented to counter the so-called sovereingty of the governmental image of violence in Mexico through a pedagogy of the dissident image. A bold number of their films are titled following the same simple structure: one term is ‘slashed’ by another. This structure is key to undestanding the complexity of their poetics. The slash stablishes a relation between two fragments, but the nature of this relation is not given beforehand. Through an analysis of the functions of this slash in one of their short films, 2 de octubre / Lejos de Tlatelolco, I read this sign as a way to overcome the aporias set by the poetics of disjunction and binary oppositions that structured counter-cinematic rhetorics of break during the 60s and 70s, in ways that manage to maintain both their critical potency and the horizon of emancipation; both a reivindication of the formal legacy of political modernism and a certain discursive ambivalence and power of affection. |
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