The cinema as a means of creating memory and territory in medellin. An approach based on the WalterBbenjamin’s concept of narration

Abstract

This article relates Walter Benjamin ́s concept of narration with some movies made and themed in Medellín city, emphasizing in the forms that provide a way for the communicability of experience and the visibilization of social problematics and contradictions of the context. Cinema is an artistic medium that, due to its technical characteristics, tends to narrate. Although this narrative characteristic is not inmanent to it, when it is accomplished, allows the constitution of images that respond to the complexity of a determined social context, that reveal it. In this paper it is argued that the realistic cinema that has been elaborated in Medellín is an example of this, particularly in its affinity with the use of natural actors.