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Volume 20, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 2050-4837
  • E-ISSN: 2050-4845

Abstract

This article explores the links between memory and materiality in the Argentine film /. It assumes that material memory, understood as the process of remembrance that results from the engagement with material traces of the past (objects, places, landscapes), is a recurrent trope by which contemporary documentary filmmakers criticize official discourses on memory from the Kirchners’s era. In this context, it reads as a fictional text that performs this mode by using photographs and landscape – as those traces of the past that bring it to the present – to embody the conflicting relationship that children of the disappeared hold with the traumatic absence of a parent. At the level of cultural memory, this translates into a narrative of the dictatorship that does not problematize – as non-fictional work did – but rather reinforces politics of memory.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
  • The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Award PID2021-123836NB-I00)
  • DGA research (Award H23_20R)
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