Haptic perception and sensory narratives in Gustavo Fontán's “river series”

Abstract

This article analyzes how three films by the Argentine director Gustavo Fontán that emerged from a river's literary tradition “paint” a river by exploring the relations between subject and landscape through haptic and sensorial dimensions. Moving away from the traditional film and documentary narratives, La orilla que se abisma (2008), El rostro (2013) y El limonero real (2016) center on an aesthetic and perceptive intensification to discover a new idea of experience which helps redraw the affective geography of the Argentine littoral.