Wandering children: the camera as a prison or backdoor in Largo Viaje by Patricio Kaulen

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Catalina Donoso Pinto

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This article analyzes the film resources used in a 1967 Chilean film as an attempt to translate the urban wanderings of its protagonist –a marginal child– through its cinematic device. The film is Patricio Kaulen’s Largo viaje, precedent of the New Cinema in Chile, that is also contradictory when it comes to Aesthetics and Politics within the frames of this movement. The analysis focuses on the dialogue between the technical possibilities, its narrative decisions and the ideological forces contained in the construction of the implicit viewer of the film

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Catalina Donoso Pinto

Universidad de Chile, Chile catalina.donoso@u.uchile.cl