Vals con Bashir: Documental, animación y memoria

[EN] This paper presents an analysis of a contemporary animated documentary that has been unanimously recognised as an extraordinary ethical and aesthetic example of the depiction of war through the personal recollections of a perpetrator: Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008). To this end, an examin...

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Author: MORAL MARTIN, FRANCISCO JAVIER|||0000-0001-5498-4883
Format: article
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:Spanish
English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/202222
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/202222
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Barbarie
Documental
Animación
Trauma
Memoria
Guerra
Perpetrador
Barbarism
Documentary
Animation
Memory
War
Perpetrator
COMUNICACION AUDIOVISUAL Y PUBLICIDAD
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Summary:[EN] This paper presents an analysis of a contemporary animated documentary that has been unanimously recognised as an extraordinary ethical and aesthetic example of the depiction of war through the personal recollections of a perpetrator: Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008). To this end, an examination is offered of the narrative, thematic and expressive strategies of the film and their effect on the ethical engagement of the spectator in response to a barbaric act. In this way, through a clever combination of expressive effects characteristic of animation that deliberately distance the film from the hyperrealistic codes of classical filmmaking, and a heavily fragmented narrative structure that gives shape to a traumatic event experienced in the first person, Waltz with Bashir offers a powerful audiovisual discourse that elicits a profound degree of empathy from the spectator, encouraging a critical response to the events depicted.