Abstract

PACHILLA, Pablo Nicolás. Three hypotheses about family documentary cinema in Argentina (2001-2021). Dixit [online]. 2022, vol.36, n.2, pp.23-39.  Epub Dec 01, 2022. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d.v36i2.2932.

This paper addresses a filmic corpus of recent Argentinian first-person documentaries, in which the filmmaker is interested in one of her relatives. In this regard, we hold three hypotheses. Firstly, that the privilege granted to family as an object of inquiry is related to the removal of the category of people, as an effect of the dictatorship and post-dictatorship. Secondly, we ask whether this focus entails a familialist retreat, concluding that the historical-political dimension is not necessarily neglected. In this sense, three groups of films are distinguished within the corpus: one in which the political is absent, another one in which it is subordinated to the private sphere and, lastly, one in which the private and the public become indiscernible. Thirdly, that it is impossible to separate the search for self-identity present in these films from collective history.

Keywords : Argentinian documentary cinema; first-person documentary; family-relationship documentary; people; family and politics..

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