Forms of Belief in Chilean Cinema
Keywords:
Chilean cinema, Religion, Religiosity, MetaphysicsAbstract
Figures related to religion or metaphysical belief have repeatedly appeared in films during a hundred years of Chilean cinema. Catholicism as a social power and source of morality insists, in fiction and documentary works, through the figure of the priest. However, the function of the priest does not surpass a dramatic element or a confrontation of the argument with History. This article delves critically and aesthetically into these issues, searching a cinematic consciousness (via spatial, temporal and audiovisual aspects) that may expose the religious to the metaphysical; this search is found in recent films.
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Filmografía de análisis
Andacollo. Dirigida por Nieves Yankovic y Jorge Di Lauro, 1959.
El chacal de Nahueltoro. Dirigida por Miguel Littin, 1968.
El Cristo ciego. Dirigida por Christopher Murray, 2017.
El húsar de la muerte. Dirigida por Pedro Sienna, 1929.
Largo viaje. Dirigida por Patricio Kaulen, 1967.
Las callampas. Dirigida por Rafael Sánchez, 1957.
Rey. Dirigida por Nilles Atallah, 2018.
Tierras magallánicas. Dirigida por José María de Agostini, 1931.
Ya no basta con rezar. Dirigida por Aldo Francia, 1972.
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