Confronting the debate on the relationship between cinema and memories of traumatic places, in the fist part the essay focuses on the aesthetic inter-textual and intra-textual strategies that have defined a terrorscape built on a cinematic archive. In the second part it concentrates on a particular case-study – Philip Scheffner’s documentary film Halfmoon Files, a Ghost Story (Germany 2007) – in order to argue how this film has intervened in, and tried to transform, the montage of the visual and sound archive of hidden and tormented histories by re-interpreting the trauma of colonial soldiers during the First World War through a documentary mise- en-scène aimed at creating different cartographies of a forgotten lieu de memoires.
Spaces, memoryscapes and the cinematic imaginary: ghosts and stories / Demaria, Cristina. - In: VS. - ISSN 0393-8255. - STAMPA. - 119:(2014), pp. 109-129.
Spaces, memoryscapes and the cinematic imaginary: ghosts and stories
DEMARIA, CRISTINA
2014
Abstract
Confronting the debate on the relationship between cinema and memories of traumatic places, in the fist part the essay focuses on the aesthetic inter-textual and intra-textual strategies that have defined a terrorscape built on a cinematic archive. In the second part it concentrates on a particular case-study – Philip Scheffner’s documentary film Halfmoon Files, a Ghost Story (Germany 2007) – in order to argue how this film has intervened in, and tried to transform, the montage of the visual and sound archive of hidden and tormented histories by re-interpreting the trauma of colonial soldiers during the First World War through a documentary mise- en-scène aimed at creating different cartographies of a forgotten lieu de memoires.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
