Open AccessImages to raise our gaze: Fragments from a conversation with Luis Ospina and Camilo Restrepo
Author(s) -
Carolina Sourdis,
Luis Ospina,
Camilo Restrepo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
comparative cinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2604-9821
DOI - 10.31009/cc.2019.v7.i13.06
Subject(s) - movie theater , conversation , film director , gaze , art , representation (politics) , poetics , motif (music) , interpretation (philosophy) , historiography , visual arts , art history , politics , literature , aesthetics , history , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , communication , psychoanalysis , archaeology , poetry , political science , law
In this conversation, Luis Ospina and Camilo Restrepo, two filmmakers who personify two periods in Colombian cinema and history, reflect on the presence of dead bodies in cinema and, particularly, of corpses as a filmic matter in their respective works and poetics. On the basis of a similar questionnaire carried out simultaneously with each filmmaker, the text brings together common and dissonant motifs to outline a possible generational arc of Colombian cinema in which the cinematographic representation of the corpse is presented as a historiographical and political motif in order to carry out an interpretation of cinema and history.