The time of the acacia: The representation in El árbol of Gustavo Fontán

Abstract

This paper is an approach of the film El árbol (2006) de Gustavo Fontán, the first movie of the Ciclo de la casa, masterpiece that introduces into a distinctive manner of production in the producer filmography. Fontán submerges himself into the universe of his parents home so that he can narrate the subsistence of an acacia that lives in the sidewalk of the house. Through various cinematographic language resources he proposes a way the representation that escapes from any category and gender to integrate them in a narration inhabitated by the cotidianity of an elderly couple. The text proposes an analysis of the representation used by the director to recognize the universe builted with the cinematographic language resources.