Santiago: loneliness under the perspective of the essay film.

Abstract

The present article proposes a reflection on the relation between the essay lm and loneliness, in the light of Santiago (João Moreira Salles, 2007). The objective is to investigate how the essayistic nature of the work interferes with the way in which the loneliness of the protagonist Santiago is presented to us. We start from the hypothesis that the film assumes a certain reflexive ambiguity about this aspect, presenting a dual possibility: sometimes Santiago seems to be alone, as a willful desire of the character; sometimes appears lonely , as a result of a process of social exclusion explained by the relationship that he maintains with the director of the film. We intend to analyze Santiago focusing on such a problem , to propose that the ambiguity experienced by the protagonist, between being alone and being lonely , is also an essential condition for the audiovisual essayist to maintain the re exive distance necessary to develop his narrative.