CineScrúpulos es una revista digital que recopila los trabajos desarrollados por los alumnos en la clase de Historia del Cine de la Facultad de Comunicaciones de la UPC. El curso no pretende brindar una visión historicista del cine repleta de fechas, nombres de directores, títulos de películas y lugares exóticos, sino que intenta evidenciar la linealidad casi genética que es intrínseca al quehacer fílmico, una tradición que no solo se repite sino que se reinterpreta en distintos / John Cassavetes es uno de esos directores cuyas películas no son conocidas por millones de aficionados al cine. Inclusive, es probable que el espectador promedio se aburra sobremanera con el visionado de alguna de sus obras debido a la exasperante longitud de las secuencias, los reiterados planos fuera de foco a consecuencia del libre desplazamiento de los actores o la estructura narrativa inacabada. Pero es justamente eso lo que hace única la obra de Cassavetes: la exploración de la conducta humana más allá de las ataduras del drama convencional, la exploración de la desnudez de los sentimientos y el mecanismos de la libertad actoral para llegar a eso que el cine siempre aspira pero logra muy pocas veces: la verdad. Esta edición de CineScrúpulos explora el legado del director norteamericano, corto en cantidad pero de una calidad indiscutible. Adicionalmente a ello, esta edición explora el lado femenino del cine desde dos ópticas distintas. John Waters, el maestro indiscutible del mal gusto cinematográfico, declaró que sus películas están inspiradas en el legado de Isabel Sarli, diosa mayúscula del parnaso erótico del cine latinoamericano gracias a su participación en las obras de Armando Bo. Entonces, ¿son los personajes de Divine la encarnación directa del espíritu de la Coca o se trata de una broma del gurú indiscutible del cine trash? Desde otro ángulo, queremos provocar en el lector el visionado de algunas películas de la belga Chantal Akerman y de la francesa Agnès Varda para identificar elementos en común desde la óptica del compromiso de las directoras con los postulados del feminismo, en plena época del me too y de la reivindicación de los espacios equitativos de género. Ambas autoras son voces disidentes e importantes en la renovación del lenguaje cinematográfico.

[pt] Esta pesquisa tem a obra de Chantal Akerman (1950 - 2015) como o seu ponto central. A proposta foi a de descrever um filme específico de Akerman – Les Rendez-vous d Anna (1978) –, em constelação com outros de seus trabalhos. Junto ao ato de descrever Les Rendez-vous d Anna, ocorre uma reflexão acerca do próprio ato de descrever enquanto um operador, um disparador teórico e artístico. Para isso, a cineasta é colocada em interlocução constante com a poeta Anne Carson (1950) e com o filósofo Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951). Este é um estudo que traduz em sua própria composição, cujo tecido traz elementos audiovisuais e poéticos, uma crença drástica nas forças pensantes da arte. Movendo-se pela noção mais geral de descrição, debruça-se sobre os temas da experimentação artística, do possível como categoria estética, da representação, da experiência, da música, do tempo, da autobiografia e da morte. / [en] This is a research which has the oeuvre of Chantal Akerman (1950 - 2015) as its main focus. The proposal was to describe one of Akerman s specific film - Les Rendez-vous d Anna -, in constellation with other of her works. While describing Les Rendez-vous d Anna, a reflection on the act of describing as an operator, an artistic and theoretical trigger, occurs. For that, the filmmaker is put alongside with the poet Anne Carson (1950) and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951). This is a study that translates in its own composition, which has in its fabric audiovisual and poetic elements, a drastic belief in the thinking forces of art. Moving through the overview notion of description, we speak of themes such as artistic experimentation, the possible as aesthetic category, representation, experience, music, time, autobiography and death.

The aim of following thesis is to demonstrate the potentials of reassessing camp into a question of method. While others have argued for the definition of camp to lie in: an aesthetic; a question of taste; the extravagant theatrical; the male gay sensibility; or as an expression of parody, this thesis suggests that camp is to be found in the performative act of readings. With emphasis on ‘decoding language’, ‘the signifier/signified’ and ‘the camp eye’ I will argue for the relevance of ‘camp as method’ and situate former stated in relation to Bhabha’s concept of ‘conversational art’; a deconstructional examination of values of aesthetic experiences set into dialogue. Demonstrating for such conceptualization three theoretical approaches and themes will be outlined. First, a historical overview of camp followed by a reassessment of camp into a method. Second, an examination of possible extensions to the concept of rereading strategies within camp, including theories on queer phenomenology; queer space and time; topias and non-places; theories of curatorial methods and its agencies. And last, I will do an analysis of Moyra Davey’s video Hemlock Forest and show how Davey’s use and reference towards Chantal Akerman can be read as camp and constitutes ‘camp as method’ according to suggested reassessment.

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The research is exploring the liminal space of aporía within the experience of film. How can film be a poetic experience and inviting philosophical thinking? Motivated by the works of filmmaker Chantal Akerman, I have come to investigate the gap within the filmic narrative of character creation. With the obligation to create an ethical relationship to my audience, I take a closer look into the aesthetics of mimesis in storytelling. Proposing that there is a shared created gap of nothingness, which works as a portal of reflection between audience and art where the aporía take place, I am influenced by the philosopher Merleau-Ponty´s phenomenological image of the chiasm. The research is accordingly discussing the actor as the embodied surface of this interplace. The liminal space is the journey of the pre-reflective mind working with the unknowable. My thesis tries to show how the image of the thinking actor can hold a space for one shared experience. Departing from a background of actor and writer, the use of writing art throughout the research is a description of different ways of expressing my artistic language; as in writing, filming, directing or acting. The research is situated within the artistic research and the material of focus is art film, ethical philosphical thinking and my own practice with an essay film of 12 minutes, [Her]barium. The locus of the discussion is my own embodied conciousness, as a spectator and in the position of filmmaker.