Raccontare e governare il tempo: Agnès Varda, Terence Davies, Alina Marazzi

  • Anna Masecchia Università di Napoli “Federico II”
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i1.5493

Abstract

Cutting out, re-using, and assembling images (on film or digital; photographs) is an increasingly frequent technique in contemporary audiovisual media, resulting in the production of hybrid texts. These texts are suspended between documentary and fiction, and intertwine different genres so that their endings can either confirm or disobey the codes of the genres they should belong to.
Which is the point of this technique? What sense does it give to the past? And to the present? Editing is working on time. In the case of pre-existing images, re-used for another text, both the editing and the building of the narrative sequence are guided by the desire to give an order to life fragments, and sometimes to put in order one’s present through the past.
In this light, the works of authors belonging to different generations, such as Agnès Varda (1928), Terence Davies (1945) e Alina Marazzi (1964), often open the audiovisual dimension up, and point it towards a discourse on time which becomes an interrogation on one’s life, and a research for an origin able to shed light on the sense of an ending.

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Author Biography

Anna Masecchia, Università di Napoli “Federico II”

Anna Masecchia insegna Storia e teoria del cinema e Generi e forme degli audiovisivi all’Università di Napoli “Federico II”. I campi di ricerca attualmente privilegiati sono le forme di riutilizzo dell’oggetto fotografia nei testi audiovisivi e gli studi sull’attore e sul divismo. È autrice di Al cinema con Proust (2008) e Vittorio De Sica. Storia di un attore (2013). Ha curato, insieme a Dunja Dogo, lo speciale Riscrivere le immagini del passato tra cinema, fotografia, letteratura e nuovi media della rivista “Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti” (8, 2015).

Published
2018-03-22
How to Cite
MasecchiaA. (2018). Raccontare e governare il tempo: Agnès Varda, Terence Davies, Alina Marazzi. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (1), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i1.5493
Issue
No 1 (2017): The sense of an ending in contemporary fiction
Section
Sezione monografica

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