“Analizando El Vacío”: análisis de los códigos que constituyen al cine como una forma de expresión que manipula la realidad e imagen en pos de su re-simbolización

Abstract

The following paper is an analytic path that will lead to the outline of an approach of a model of cinematographic analysis, applied in he short film called ¨El contenedor¨, developed during the film studies of Patricio Capelo and Carlos Castro. In the first section, there will be a review over topics that go from the ritualistic birth of theater, the archetypes, the collective unconscious, the constitutive features of mythologies, the path of the hero, the study of the Tarot, all to relate the way of creating and conceiving cinema in the present day and, therefore, understand how does those archaic mechanisms work in this contemporary medium. In the second section, it would be shown the way in which contemporary authors analyze film sequences, studying montage notions and some cinematic codes that have established both the basis to the way a movie is conceived, and the place the spectator occupies to perceive a work piece. In conclusion, this project intends to create an outline of a model of film analysis, trying to make the spectator aware of these codes. Using the concepts revised previously, it would be shown a way to read and receive a movie.