O documentário venezuelano contemporâneo (2005-2013) paradigmas, práticas e formas de representação

Abstract

This work presents the results of a survey on narrative features found on contemporary Venezuelan documentary, specifically, the feature and medium length (over 30 minutes) films released in Venezuelan theaters between 2005 and 2013. We go through the work of several film critics who have written about Venezuelan documentary from the 1960s to the 1990s. In the critical review of this framework, we distinguished paradigmatic moments of documentary activity in the country, which unfold in particular forms and practices of representation. These paradigms, practices and forms dialogue with our contemporary corpus and allow us to identify three sets of films: one of leftist and militant documentaries; another, of works revolving a nationalist-populist paradigm; and finally, one we call of "ideological diversity", which moves away from the representation of Venezuelan working classes and the popular culture. The thesis describes ideological, aesthetic, narrative and thematic peculiarities of these three groups of films, and produces a film analysis of three titles, each of them belonging to one of these groups.