{"title":"Empathetic and Affective Circuits in Marcela Zamora Chamorro’s María en tierra de nadie and Tin Dirdamal’s De nadie","authors":"Jared List","doi":"10.23870/marlas.354","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Using Roger Rouse’s (2002) theoretical conceptualization of migration as circuits and border, this essay analyzes two documentary Central American-Mexican films on migration, Tin Dirdamal’s De nadie (2005) and Marcela Zamora Chamorro’s Maria en tierra de nadie (2011). The films represent and engender circuits rooted in basic humanity and seek to recuperate a humanitarian model that establishes an ethics of relationality grounded in human rights as opposed to a necropolitical one derived from violence and consumption. Both documentaries become a form of resistance against a necropolitical system that consumes and destroys human life, through their ability to prompt viewers to recognize and apprehend the migrants’ situations. By employing testimonial and affective strategies, the films attempt emotional identification and affective transmission between the viewer and the films’ subjects, at the risk of replicating the very notion they are fighting. The films challenge viewers to comprehend the humanity shared by self and Other. Such a demand threatens the gore capitalist model of power that enables the violence, precarity, and vulnerability that migrants face during their journey. Utilizando la conceptualizacion teorica de Roger Rouse (2002) de la migracion como circuitos y frontera, este ensayo analiza dos documentales centroamericano-mexicanos sobre la migracion, De nadie (2005) de Tin Dirdamal y Maria en tierra de nadie (2011) de Marcela Zamora Chamorro. Las peliculas representan y engendran circuitos arraigados en la humanidad basica y buscan recuperar un modelo humanitario que establezca una etica de relacionalidad basada en los derechos humanos, frente a una necropolitica derivada de la violencia y el consumo. Ambos documentales se convierten en una forma de resistencia contra un sistema necropolitico que consume y destruye la vida humana, a traves de su capacidad para mover a los espectadores a reconocer y aprehender las situaciones de los migrantes. Mediante el empleo de estrategias testimoniales y afectivas, las peliculas intentan la identificacion emocional y la transmision afectiva entre el espectador y los sujetos de las peliculas, a riesgo de replicar la nocion misma que estan atacando. Las peliculas retan a los espectadores a comprender la humanidad compartida por uno mismo y el Otro. Tal demanda amenaza el modelo capitalista gore de poder que permite la violencia, la precariedad y la vulnerabilidad que enfrentan los migrantes durante su viaje.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.23870/marlas.354","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using Roger Rouse’s (2002) theoretical conceptualization of migration as circuits and border, this essay analyzes two documentary Central American-Mexican films on migration, Tin Dirdamal’s De nadie (2005) and Marcela Zamora Chamorro’s Maria en tierra de nadie (2011). The films represent and engender circuits rooted in basic humanity and seek to recuperate a humanitarian model that establishes an ethics of relationality grounded in human rights as opposed to a necropolitical one derived from violence and consumption. Both documentaries become a form of resistance against a necropolitical system that consumes and destroys human life, through their ability to prompt viewers to recognize and apprehend the migrants’ situations. By employing testimonial and affective strategies, the films attempt emotional identification and affective transmission between the viewer and the films’ subjects, at the risk of replicating the very notion they are fighting. The films challenge viewers to comprehend the humanity shared by self and Other. Such a demand threatens the gore capitalist model of power that enables the violence, precarity, and vulnerability that migrants face during their journey. Utilizando la conceptualizacion teorica de Roger Rouse (2002) de la migracion como circuitos y frontera, este ensayo analiza dos documentales centroamericano-mexicanos sobre la migracion, De nadie (2005) de Tin Dirdamal y Maria en tierra de nadie (2011) de Marcela Zamora Chamorro. Las peliculas representan y engendran circuitos arraigados en la humanidad basica y buscan recuperar un modelo humanitario que establezca una etica de relacionalidad basada en los derechos humanos, frente a una necropolitica derivada de la violencia y el consumo. Ambos documentales se convierten en una forma de resistencia contra un sistema necropolitico que consume y destruye la vida humana, a traves de su capacidad para mover a los espectadores a reconocer y aprehender las situaciones de los migrantes. Mediante el empleo de estrategias testimoniales y afectivas, las peliculas intentan la identificacion emocional y la transmision afectiva entre el espectador y los sujetos de las peliculas, a riesgo de replicar la nocion misma que estan atacando. Las peliculas retan a los espectadores a comprender la humanidad compartida por uno mismo y el Otro. Tal demanda amenaza el modelo capitalista gore de poder que permite la violencia, la precariedad y la vulnerabilidad que enfrentan los migrantes durante su viaje.