LOGGED HOMES: The experience of time and space in Martel’s Salta
Lucrecia Martel, familiar, strange, sensible, Argentine cinema.
Lucrecia Martel’s “Salta Trilogy” takes a unique look at her home town in Argentina 1 and, in particular, at family and home in an immersion on feminine, domestic and ordinary life, in which the extraordinary emerges from the ordinary or the strange from the familiar. This research intends to step into and dwell in the films “The Swamp” (2001), “The Holy Girl” (2004) and “The Headless Woman” (2008), through the creation of audiovisual essays inspired by the research of Catherine Grant (2012, 2014, 2016) ande Samuel Brasileiro (2021). This methodology of film analysis consists of the montage of selected scenes from the research corpus and seeks to investigate similarity and otherness between the films, experiment with them and investigate in Martel's trilogy the potential, not of representing real timespaces of her family origins, but to reconfigure ways of seeing the world and inhabiting this interior universe from a perspective that is attentive to the dimension of affection, which allows experiencing alternative notions of temporality and forms of connection with the sensitive world.