Elusive Trajectories

Space in The Search of Memory in documentary

Abstract

Observing the construction of two documentaries I work with the hypothesis that space is stablished as a possibility of construction, update and investigation of memories mobilized by women directors. In Con mi corazón en Yambo, María Fernanda Restrepo (2011, Equador, 139 min) e 108: Cuchillo de palo, Renate Costa (2011, Paraguai, 95 min,) the female directors are present at the scene, investigating their families past and how are intertwined with their countries social and political lives. The similarities between the documentaries are the starting point of this work, but they end up having different memories works. Women’s directing is also addressed from their relationship with feminist documentary and its political expressivity. Therefore, space is discussed beyond its physicality, in a non-essentialist and symbolic emphasis, as the creation and creator of sense through different temporalities. This paper proposes to investigate the role of space in the narrative and in the formation of memories worked on the movies. Trough the reviving and visits of the female directors to the places of the past creates meaning during filming.