Visual archaeology, the case of the forgotten films of Pedro Sienna.
Pedro Sienna cinema is an unknown. The majority of his films are disappeared and there are little shots and some newspapers articles or some pages in cinema history book’s (ruins). For re-think Siennas image’s it’s necessary to do an archaeological exercise, in order to re-build Siennas cinematographic operation’s and discursive approachings. In order to demonstrate the Pedro Sienna cinema’s suffer from a gradual process of des-theatricalization of the cinematographic image, it’s necessary to contextualize these ruins in a temporal line and show his signifier changes. This process in the cinema will conclude in a radical transformation of the cinematographic image in the dialectical, naturalistic and expressionist cinema’s.
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Chilean cinema
Pedro Sienna
des-theatricalization.
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Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual - número 16 - Santiago, diciembre 2010 - 59/75 pp.- ISSN 0718-876x. Rev. chil. antropol. vis.