El cine de José Luis Guerín: En construcción (2001) y Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007)

Abstract

The thinker Jacques Aumont confirms in Du visage au cinéma that a special treat-ment of the face has developed throughout the history of the cinema but refuses to admit the existence of a cinema portrait. The career of filmmaker José Luis Guerin calls into question such categorical statements. This work studies Guerin´s work, confronts it with that of Aumont´s and aims to establish a bridge between theory and practice that, in turn, brings cinema closer to a genre, portraiture, whose integration with other arts has never been questioned.