“Poner el cuerpo” y “tomar la palabra”: violencias, afectos y autorrepresentación en el documental feminista contemporáneo en Chile (2010-2019)

Abstract

This article analyzes three contemporary Chilean documentaries from an interdisciplinary framework and places them in a context of feminist practices, interpreting a certain corpus of recent documentaries made by women in Chile in light of the growing politicization process that the country has experienced during the last decade. This analysis considers the use of a series of resources and strategies of self-exposure in film, as means through which the complex affects derived from the intersection of multiple violences experienced and elaborated in the films, are embodied and put in language and on stage. In this way, we propose the development of a political self-exhibition of the bodies in documentary, which, from the exercise of self-representation, inserts these works into current feminist political practice.