The landscapes of grief: spaces of loss on the Argentine coast
Pinamar | Federico Godfrid | 2016 - Las olas | Natalia Dagatti | 2017 - Los miembros de la familia | Mateo Bendesky | 2019
Rocio Gordon

Christopher Newport University

Abstract

This article presents a spatial approach to grief through the analysis of Pinamar (2016) by Federico Godfrid, Las olas by Natalia Dagatti (2017) and Los miembros de la familia (2019) by Mateo Bendesky. The recent death of the mother is the starting point of these three films that are set in coastal towns or cities of Buenos Aires during the off season. This essay examines the relationship between grief and space by exploring how the return to a liminal space (the coast) and materiality of its landscape create a cinematic form and narrative that represents the dislocation of the self when it faces the absence left by death.

Keywords: mourning | grief | landscape | coast | space | haptic

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Los paisajes del duelo: espacios de pérdida en la costa argentina


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Volumen 13 | Nº 2

JULY 2023
July 2023 - Octuber 2023

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