La sombra de un Dios. Cuando el dolor apunta a las intenciones de la comunidad (Artículos de Investigación)

To analyze The Shadow of a God, the director was interviewed in order to gather elementary details with which to interpret the pain treatment of "Chon", its protagonist. At the beginning the plot of the documentary and its technical characteristics are synthesized. The first part entitled “El Cazador” develops the notion of Sontag's exoticism in the description of the filmmaker's motivations; also, geographically locates the Huichol people -stage of the film-, enunciates the core of the story and the reflections raised. Then, the pros (guided by the power of the testimony of Recalcati) and contras (referring to a story by Borges about the insertion of an individual in a different culture, and how it transforms it) of the visual narrative are analyzed. Finally, “El capricho de la comunidad” offers the perspective of cinema as a social mobilizer.

• Main Author: Poveda Chávez, Sergio Augusto (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: CINE DOCUMENTAL; CRÍTICA DE CINE; VIOLENCIA SOCIAL; PUEBLO HUICHOL
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10644/6763