Documentaries, memories and policies: audiovisual representation of the trials for the violation of human rights during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina

Abstract

In the present job we propose to analyze the recent Argentinian documentary film production which talks about the trials of enlargement to those responsible for the violation of human rights during the last civic-military dictatorship in the country (1976-1983). We study those documentaries in their production context to analyze them into the complex relationship between politics and memory, investigating about the role of many institutional agents and social actors that interact in social and historical contexts where policies around the recent history configure many ways of revise the past and participate on the disputes for the sense of the past in the present. We pay special attention to the role of the state as an actor that intervenes, promotes or obstructs the development and application of cultural policies destinated to the audiovisual field, that results relevant for the production, diffusion and circulation of these documentaries audiovisuals representations that make a rereading of the past and the present in the complex process of rescuing voices and memories. Meanwhile, we abroad the documentary representation’s analysis as proof, evidence and readability of recent history. To do this, we focus on the incorporation of testimonies and photographic images in audiovisual narratives, how these resources are incorporated on documental representation.