The shadow of a God. When the pain points to the intentions of the community

Authors

  • Sergio Poveda Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador)

Keywords:

documentary film; edoc 2018; community cinema; people’s pain

Abstract

To analyze The Shadow of a God, the director was interviewed in order to gather elementary details with which to interpret the pain treatment of "Chon", its protagonist. At the beginning the plot of the documentary and its technicalcharacteristics are synthesized. The first part entitled “El Cazador” develops the notion of Sontag's exoticism in the description of the filmmaker's motivations; also, geographically locates the Huichol people -stage of the film-, enunciates the core of the story and the reflections raised. Then, the pros (guided by the power of the testimony of Recalcati) and contras (referring to a story by Borges about the insertion of an individual in a different culture, and how it transforms it) of the visual narrative are analyzed. Finally, “El capricho de la comunidad” offers the perspective of cinema as a social mobilizer.

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Published

2019-04-10

How to Cite

Poveda, S. . (2019). The shadow of a God. When the pain points to the intentions of the community. Uru: Revista De Comunicación Y Cultura, (2), 100–106. Retrieved from https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/uru/article/view/1348

Issue

No. 2 (2019): Genre and Communication

Section

Artículos de investigación

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