Poetic constructions of cinema in extreme situations
The cinema of the real by F. Deligny
Derek Humphreys

Psicoanalista, Profesor titular de psicopatología clínica. Université Paris Cité

Abstract

This text summarises the author’s presentation at the film symposium at the 16th International Congress of Research and Professional Practice in Psychology, which took place at the University of Buenos Aires between 27-29 November 2024. A dimension of cinema that is beyond traditional narrative is proposed and analysed to account for the wide range of contemporary social exclusion. As a paradigmatic example of this non-narrative cinema, the work of Fernand Deligny is presented, who developed a cinema of poetic structure, in which the successive scenes do not present a diaphanous and organised story, but rather force us to seek some sense of direction in the face of a sequence of images of extreme intensity and without apparent continuity.

Keywords: Precariousness | Wandering | Discontinuity | Illusion | Trauma | Narrativity | Real | Cinema

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Construcciones poéticas del cine en situaciones extremas


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Volumen 15 | N° 1

MARCH 2025
March 2025 - June 2025

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