Lucrecia Martel’s film La ciénaga (2001), shot with hand-held camera and in direct sound, builds a sense of suspense within a banal everyday life family situation. The film is an ex- ploration of familiar situations and apparently well-known spaces that turn out to be anomalies and reveal another reality. Martel seems to explore what Georges Perec called the infra-ordinaire, thus presenting the ins and outs of daily life, the repetition and the absurdity of certain family dy- namics. La ciénaga is literally a ‘swamp’, a city in Argentina, and a pool, muddy and covered with leaves. The title allegorically summarizes the corrupt environment in which human beings with an inhuman behaviour fight for their survival.

La mirada enfangada. Acerca de La ciénaga de Lucrecia Martel

BOU MAQUEDA, Enric
2014-01-01

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Lucrecia Martel’s film La ciénaga (2001), shot with hand-held camera and in direct sound, builds a sense of suspense within a banal everyday life family situation. The film is an ex- ploration of familiar situations and apparently well-known spaces that turn out to be anomalies and reveal another reality. Martel seems to explore what Georges Perec called the infra-ordinaire, thus presenting the ins and outs of daily life, the repetition and the absurdity of certain family dy- namics. La ciénaga is literally a ‘swamp’, a city in Argentina, and a pool, muddy and covered with leaves. The title allegorically summarizes the corrupt environment in which human beings with an inhuman behaviour fight for their survival.
2014
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