Video essays

Video essays

THE NIGHT BY MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI, A VIDEO ESSAY

By Mónica Delgado

In The Night (La Notte, 1961), Michelangelo Antonioni proposes the progressive rupture of the relationship in a bourgeois marriage (a writer, and a writer’s wife). However, on the symbolic level, the filmmaker establishes in advance, the sexual desire imaginary of Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) facing her husband’s disinterest. Hence, The Night is not a film about a couple in crisis, but about the gaze of a woman on this crisis.

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LA NOCHE DE MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI, UN VIDEO ENSAYO

Por Mónica Delgado

Se ha hablado de La Noche (La Notte, 1961) de Michelangelo Antonioni como una película sobre la incomunicación, es más, como parte de una serie de indagaciones sobre los desencuentros entre hombres y mujeres y sus roces sentimentales, junto a las clásicas L’Eclisse (1962) y L’Avventura (1959). Aunque a diferencia de estos dos trabajos sobre parejas, en La Noche, hay una intención clara por definir y cifrar la mirada que gobierna el impulso del relato fílmico: la de Jeanne Moreau, o de la mujer angustiada e introspectiva que encarna.

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ADAM’S RIB BY GEORGE CUKOR: A VIDEO ESSAY

By Monica Delgado

In three moments of Adam’s Rib (EEUU, 1949), George Cukor uses the resource of breaking the fourth Wall, not with the usual intention in comedy, but to obtain some kind of filiation of the spectator in this war of the sexes which was declared.

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SOBRE ADAM’S RIB DE GEORGE CUKOR

Por Mónica Delgado.

En tres momentos de Adam’s Rib (La Costilla de Adán, 1949), George Cukor utiliza el recurso de ruptura de la cuarta pared, no con la intención usual de las comedias, sino para obtener algún tipo de filiación del espectador o espectadora en esta guerra de los sexos declarada.

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THE SWAMP (LA CIÉNAGA) BY LUCRECIA MARTEL: A VIDEOESSAY

By Monica Delgado

With La Ciénaga (2001), Lucrecia Martel made her debut into feature films, and did so with clear and rational structure that looks to reflect the signs of decadence of a social class, with characters that spend summer in an Argentinian northern rural zone estate. Beyond raising the question of how a determined social stratum in Argentina becomes reflected in this film, I’m interested in finding out some motives about the idea of family that La Ciénaga suggests.

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VIDEOFILIA (AND OTHER VIRAL SYNDROMES): A VIDEOESSAY

By Mónica Delgado

Beyond the power of technology and its control over the libido of teenagers that is posed in Videophilia (And Other Viral Syndromes), it seems that Peruvian filmmaker Juan Daniel Molero also proposes a reading about the consequences of this type of “infection” from female guilt and repression.

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THE CAMERA, MATTER AND PRESENCE: ON THE SILVER GLOBE AND HARD TO BE A GOD

By Mónica Delgado

What are the similarities, beyond their arguments, between On The Silver Globe and Hard to Be a God? Both in Andrzej Zulawski’s film, as in Aleksei German’s, science fiction is the point of departure to tell stories of scientific nature in two planets similar to Earth. In both films there are characters forced to live in new communities, or to establish them, where historical processes experienced on Earth are replicated under the same social and human dialectics. These are dystopian and pessimistic universes, where research and investigation become focus and narrative eye.

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