Paul Lavayén
Some reflections should precede a review of the documentary films. It happens that one can argue the autonomy of the aesthetic value of a fiction film but in case things get complicated documentary. Specifically talk about the film Tapólogo Gabriela and Sally Gutierrez Dewar. Let us take an example close. Last year the movement "Women Creating" a documentary about the mistreatment of women. Can not stop saying that the cameraman could not even read the manual of your camera. Is that so important? In this case did not, because despite the cameraman walking, we were able to trace the lives of these women in an intense and almost painful. Actually have to think about the performative capacity of the film, ie its potential to transform reality. The film is always a challenge to the viewer. And like everything else, must be considered from that of specificity.
For Tapólogo tells the situation of women living with HIV in Africa. At first glance we can see that the quality of the proposal was kept in great detail. Let's see how it works, this documentary. In broad terms, the visual work is divided into two: the context and the human face. Start with a visit to a woman in an almost terminal. The visiting the feeds. And as in the famous painting by Van Gogh, viewers can know much about her to see her room. So we know where the rest goes. Then there are the testimonies and scenes of life in the village. This is essential because not only know about a person but of the whole community: and then, of the human condition.
The most recurrent: scenes of testimony. The general condition of the face should always be thought as something separate from the body. So one might almost say that it does not matter, but gestures, facial movements. At some point this becomes evident in the film, because when talking about women who volunteer their care, so only exposes one to one filming the face and the brightness of his courage is all too obvious. And yet, I should say that it is difficult to get out of these two elements as the structure of the film (although divided into two chapters) is almost chaotic and confusing. While stopping at a long face, not so much focus on a bottle of beer when we heard even before the alcohol problem in the community. Then the problem of placing stage is that conforms to describe a situation from a very general. And now I would say the important of narration in the documentary, which is not sufficient overview. Hence Tapólogo loses its ability to understand both what he shoots. If you must put on something so urgent, terrible and hopeless, the director must first suffer what they see and then just project it. The other thing has been done ad nauseam.
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