From Visible Shaping to Sensitive Matter: Polyvision on the Subject in the Film La soledad (Jaime Rosales, 2007)

Abstract

This text tries to show how the filmic expression of polivision –with a long history in the representation of pictorial and cinematographic image– acquires a concrete value in the work of Jaime Rosales, especially through the case study of the film La soledad (2007). More than a simple extension and multiplication of the power of the gaze, rather than a rejection of the long tradition around the monovision established in the conical perspective, the filming praxis of this director seeks here, in a contrary direction, the permanent critical reflection on the intentionality and quiet subterfuges of that omnipotent and onmipresent gaze, founder of modernity, as a modus operandi in the representation of a lacking and dysfunctional subject, trapped in frames of symbolic constriction.