Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil

After the 1973 coup d’État, Chilean cinema quickly retook its activity from abroad. Two key films were then produced, pioneer manifestations of exile cinema: Dialogue of the exiled (Raoul Ruiz, 1974) and There’s no forgetting (Mallet, Fajardo & González 1975). The present article seeks to bring...

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Main Author: Ignacio Albornoz Fariña
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Language:English
Published: Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel 2021-08-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/map/5293
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description After the 1973 coup d’État, Chilean cinema quickly retook its activity from abroad. Two key films were then produced, pioneer manifestations of exile cinema: Dialogue of the exiled (Raoul Ruiz, 1974) and There’s no forgetting (Mallet, Fajardo & González 1975). The present article seeks to bring into dialogue these two works through the prism of a shared feature: the description of the everyday banalities of life in exile. Drawing freely on Henri Bergson’s notion of absence, and critically engaging with Said’s, Didi-Huberman’s and Traverso’s reflections on the experience of exile, the text will explain why, in times of a radical adversity, Chilean cinema sought shelter in a “poetics of the everyday”, apparently stranger to any direct political agenda. Some sequences will then be analyzed to show how these films succeed to signify exile without conceding to a paralyzing melancholy or to a categorical political statement.
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Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil
Mise au Point
exile
Chilean cinema
everyday
Raoul Ruiz
Marilú Mallet
title Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil
title_full Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil
title_fullStr Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil
title_full_unstemmed Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil
title_short Puissances du quotidien : remèdes contre l’absence dans un cinéma chilien de l’exil
title_sort puissances du quotidien remedes contre l absence dans un cinema chilien de l exil
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Chilean cinema
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Raoul Ruiz
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url https://journals.openedition.org/map/5293
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