Naslov
Performativity and Intermediality in Avi Mograbi's Documentaries

Autori
Borjan, Etami

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
The Real and the Intermedial / - , 2015

Skup
The Real and the Intermedial

Mjesto i datum
Cluj-Napoca, Rumunjska, 22.10.2015. - 24.10.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
intermediality, first-person documentary, digital documentary, performative documentary

Sažetak
Avi Mograbi’s documentaries use different narrative strategies and media to intertwine the evidentiary and the confessional truth-claims. That is punctuated by the filmmaker's personal diary-style confessions to camera. In his documentary Z32 (2008) Mograbi uses several discursive strategies that subvert the first person documentary as a genre. In this movie an ex-soldier confesses his crimes in front of the camera and his girlfriend. Although he addresses the camera frontally, the use of digital masks together with his testimonies, creates a confusing effect of misrecognition. Mograbi's postmodern Brechtian interventions through songs that reflect on his own involvement in the unfolding confession foreground text’s destabilizing operations. The combination of confessional acting out and performance of confession exacerbate the crises of narrativization and audience. Positioned in front of his own camera, Mograbi is both protagonist and docu-auteur. August (2002) undermines Mograbi’s directorial presence when it includes a fictive Avi Mograbi who is the living director impersonating himself through performance and playing different characters at the same time. His double presence, the use of home videos, digital technologies, and music performance destabilize the conventions of first person documentary and the confessional and commenting functions ascribed to the first person speakers. Intermediality in Mograbi’s documentaries is used mainly in terms of staging the arts for the sake of self-reference and self-reflexivity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti, Filmska umjetnost (filmske, elektroničke i medijske umjetnosti pokretnih slika)

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