Time, Transit, Subjectivity in En Construcción and El Cielo Gira
Abstract
Thinking about the processes of transformation of the meanings of belonging and the discovery of an absolute foreignness, Spanish documentary cinema of the 2000s was based on a double emergency: the scenic landscape is immediately led to be real, while the Reality is inscribed in a (defiant) personification of filmic forms. The article discusses the metaphors of deterritorialization in the excavation of time, silence, emptiness and its remains in two fundamental Spanish documentary films of the 2000s: En Construcción (José Luis Guerín, 2000) and El Cielo Gira (Mercedes Álvarez, 2004).