Memory-images in a peripherical film philosophy

CIANCIO, MARÍA BELÉN

Amsterdam

Congreso; Connect, Continue, Create. 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference; 2010

Utrech University

According to Deleuze, peripherical cinemas as the Thirld World Cinemas, were always cinemas of memory. South-american films, and film studies, are at this moment a very intense and important field in the way of thinking how and why a philosophy of cinema and memory, as deleuzean, is applied and reinvent to construct an epistemology of visual in peripherical cinemas and theories. After the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) the emergences of a "memory cinema" or "recollection cinema" (with authors like María Luisa Bemberg, Lita Stantik, Héctor Olivera, Luis Puenzo) had a different perspective and experience that one of the Third World Cinema (or New Latin American Cinema) that Deleuze evokes in Time-Image as the cinema of the becoming people and that was interrupted. Today, with young directors like Albertina Carri,Lucrecia Martel, Lucía Puenzo, and the important documentary movement and colectivos, a new multiplicity of challenges is present. Memory images, where the question of the cinema as a language and philosophy of the body always remind us to the problem of the missing people, or desaparecidos, are becoming a space of new subjectivities, new minorities, where bodies, gazes, and memories, configure new subjects of a cinema enunciation or fourth personal singular.