Testimony and fantasy in the cinema of Víctor Erice: bordering the cipher of events in claiming an experience of history.
Víctor Erice; modern cinema; experience of history.
The work investigates how the cinema of the Spanish director Víctor Erice claims the experience of history and what effects this inscribes in the formal aspect of his films. The corpus of the work comprises the feature films O Espírito da Colmeia (1973), O Sul (1983) and the short film Alumbramiento (2002). These are films that rescue the period right after the end of the Spanish Civil War through family plots and an elegiac atmosphere. The work supports the hypothesis that Erice& 39;s cinema claims the experience of history through a border in the cipher of events that plot the narrative, diegetic and formal dimensions of the films. For that, it puts in scene the phenomenon of the suspension of the borders between the testimony and the fantasy; realism and poetry; fiction and documentary; what belongs to the diegetic universe and what belongs to the formal aspect of the films, producing a feeling of being behind with the domain of these registers. In this sense, we also argue that not only is the experience of history referenced to the post-Spanish Civil War context that is presented in the films, but also the very condition of appearance of the historical, insofar as it is not in the contextual representation that the films inscribes its dawn, but in the very crisis of representation that its way of narrating announces.