New constructions and forms to dismantle memory in three documentaries of autobiographical Argentinean cinema Memoria familiar

Abstract

 This article aims to explore how the familiar and trans-generational memory have been constructed from the analysis of selected art objects: three Argentinean autobiographical documentaries from the past ten years, directed by children of the desaparecidos. The current development of the autobiographical phenomenon involves —in the works of our interest— new ways of thinking testimony (their own and the survivors’), which considers daily routines and familiar intimacy as privileged places in the reconstruction and reconfi guration of broken identities. Thus, multiple references to everyday places, and to familiar aspects emerge in the search of foothold —spaces, images, objects, and memories. However, there is also an accent in the process of constructing and dismantling subjectivities marked by violence and fi ssure most of the times.