First theorem on Invasion by Hugo Santiago
Keywords:
autonomy, transgression, narrative resources, semiotic resourcesAbstract
Much has been written about the film Invasión (1969) by Hugo Santiago Muchnik, the one that would have a script written by Jorge Luis Borges himself and by Adolfo Bioy Casares. In the panorama of national cinema, the film is impossible to ascribe to any cinematographic current and to any particular genre. Trying to take something from what various researchers have written about the film and some of Santiago's own testimonies, we will argue that the audiovisual resources in Invasión are transgressed by being approached in unconventional ways; achieving an autonomy of the film in multiple factors such as: generic conventions, narrative structure, archetypal characters and cinematographic space. In Santiago's film there is a shift between the representation and the one represented thanks to the multiple transgressions generated throughout the film's structure. The filmmaker would always seek the creation of his own cinematographic language in constant transgression, linking and transformation that end in a kind of autonomy statute.
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