Abstract

PALACIOS OBREGON, Camilo Eduardo. Unrealities of the Documentary Genre in Colombia. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2017, n.18, pp.32-41. ISSN 2011-804X.

The relationship between the documentary genre and reality seems to be inevitable, even tautological. We have been told that the former should reveal the latter, although not for semantic but ideological reasons. The ways in which this link has been displaced have been studied by authors like Antonio Weinrichter. This paper articulates the typologies proposed by this author for Colombian documentaries of the last two decades. We analyze works that have pushed the frontiers of their genre and that, through their defiance of the paradigm of the real, have learned to disclose the appearance of falsifications, to demonstrate the malleability of images, and to promote the understanding of subjectivities.

Keywords : Colombian documentaries; reality in cinema; non-fiction; paradigm of the documentary genre; Antonio Weinrichter.

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