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- Title
Ecologies from Below: Politics and the Memory of Water in Patricio Guzmán's The Pearl Button.
- Authors
Díaz, Carolina A
- Abstract
Patricio Guzmán's 2015 essay-film I The Pearl Button i explores this material and the ideal element of water in the Chilean cultural and political imaginary. I do not consider myself a witness that stares at the world with indifference but a participant that pushes something ("El cine documental").[1] Guzmán's ethical aim is clear: to make life better through his preferred genres of the documentary and essay-film so as "to heal thought of its arbitrary character by incorporating arbitrariness reflectively into its own approach" (Adorno 76). In the same manner, Guzmán's telescopic cinematic vision rotates in time and space - his camera and angles, the mise-en-scène, are searching too, propelled, perhaps, by "a desire to retrieve something we already knew", as poet Raúl Zurita will later state in the film (0:35:49-53).[10] Guzmán asserts that, from the desert, astronomers have discovered water "in almost the entire cosmos. Guzmán explains, "if one works on documentary cinema something extraordinary occurs, for, as time passes, the film becomes the world's memory bank, like a country's photo album" ("Ad Astra per Aspera" 22). Ecologies from Below: Politics and the Memory of Water in Patricio Guzmán's The Pearl Button.
- Subjects
WATER power; MEMORY; HUMAN rights movements; ANTHROPOGENIC effects on nature; CHERNOBYL Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986; COLLECTIVE memory; BIOSPHERE
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 4, p1327
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isle/isaa129