Visual Strategies in LA CIÉNAGA
La Ciénaga
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14m
From the very first shot of her very first feature, LA CIÉNAGA, Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel laid claim to a distinctive, defiantly strange cinematic syntax unlike any other. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor Kristin Thompson examines the surprising choices—uncomfortably tight framing, unusual camera positions, and soft- and out-of-focus lensing—that Martel uses to keep the identities of and relationships between her characters intriguingly opaque and to heighten the film’s stinging critique of bourgeois torpor.
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In this interview, conducted in April 2014, director, writer, and Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema founder Andrés Di Tella examines the cultural context from which filmmaker Lucrecia Martel emerged, and analyzes her groundbreaking first feature.
