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I DON'T FEEL LIKE I BELONG: constellations of melancholy in the cinema of Chantal Akerman and Jonas Mekas

Space; Landscape; Cinema; Melancholy; Chantal Akerman; Jonas Mekas.

This research seeks to investigate the melancholic atmospheres and the ways in which space and landscape are created in the nody of work of Chantal Akerman and Jonas Mekas. In this comparative look between the two filmographies, this work focuses on issues related to displacement through space, the urban wanderings that both filmmakers undertake, and the constant feeling of non-belonging that cross their works. Thus, spatiality is revealed as the guiding axis of the research, pointing to interdisciplinary approaches between cinema and architecture, for example. In addition, the investigations on the films are based on the consideration of the materialities of these images, having as a guiding thread of analysis the notion of melancholy and its aesthetic reverberations in the spaces and landscapes registered by these filmmakers.