13. Extraordinary Stories, a Mariano Llinás Postmodern Art Film

Abstract

By analyzing Extraordinary Stories (Historias Extraordinarias), a 2008 movie by Argentinean filmmaker Mariano Llinás, Gabriela Rivadeneira Crespo questions the “productivity of cinema devices” to fully exemplify the type of postmodern film where cinema and contemporary art collaborate. Paradoxically, this kind of film, given the radical choices that govern it, places it in an expanded film, but marginalizes it in relation to cinema industry. The locations and modes of reception of such films are also part of the definition of post-cinema in the post-art era.