Relatar a través del trauma del perpetradorMemoria y representación en The Act of Killing de Joshua Oppenheimer

  1. Martín Sanz, Álvaro 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

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Zeitschrift:
Fonseca, Journal of Communication

ISSN: 2172-9077

Datum der Publikation: 2021

Titel der Ausgabe: Interacciones entre las prácticas audiovisuales del arte y la ciencia; I-II

Nummer: 23

Seiten: 253-273

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.14201/FJC202123253273 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

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Zusammenfassung

Faced with the fear of the surviving victims to denounce the crimes that took place in the Indonesian genocide, the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer elaborates in The Act of Killing a non-fiction device centred on the figure of the perpetrators as narrators of the story. This daring and unusual approach involves a constant tension of forces between the filmmaker's authorial voice and that of Anwar Congo, the former perpetrator who is the protagonist of the film. Thus, this article seeks to analyses Oppenheimer's famous work from the perspective of cultural studies on memory and trauma, using a methodology based on textual analysis. Our research hypothesis is based on the idea that Oppenheimer's proposal presents a distancing that, nevertheless, ends up focusing on the personal trauma of the perpetrator, who shapes the discourse according to his own will and causes the tragic to be transfigured into the comic. To argue in favor of this, we develop a narratological study that focuses on how the film is constructed through the recreation of images of the Indonesian genocide that do not exist. The main conclusion is that the work ends up becoming an audiovisual spectacle that goes beyond the mere documentary reconstruction on which the starting point was based. However, this generates a discourse which, given the lack of knowledge of the genocide by a large part of the Western public, creates the danger of becoming the sole account of the event.

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