1932: entre a imagem e a virtualidade

Abstract

Between reality and its image representation, the subjectivity of who captures this reality interferes, the subjectivity of whose intellectual, social and cultural conditions are configured in face of the imagistic face’s analogic and dissimilar arrangement, according to Jacques Ranciere’s considerations on the images’ nature. Therefore, the statement of the existence of a single speech about an historical event is shaken, as well as the univocality of such an event. Taking this into consideration, the documentary 1932: cicatriz en la memoria (2005), directed by Carlos Henriquez Consalvi for the Museo de la Palabr y la Imagen (MUPI), of El Salvador, presents a narrative that grasps the popular cleansing and cultural ethnocide of 1932 as the seed of the Salvadoran Communist Party (PC). At the same time, another narrative whose line of thought goes in the opposite direction is elaborated, placing the indigenous as the protagonist, challenging the official discourse about the events.