El cuerpo, la traición y el asco: Estrategias cinematográficas en La flaca Alejandra, vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena de Carmen Castillo (1994)

Abstract

This article analyses the cinematographic strategies in Carmen Castillo’s documentary La flaca Alejandra, vida y muertes de una mujer chilena (‘Skinny Alejandra, life and death of a Chilean woman’) (1994) that represent the experience of betrayal, including forked narration and temporal simultaneity through spectral figures. The reading proposes that the documentary, while erasing binaries and attempting an ‘ethical neutrality’, subjects the brutal particularities of torture and sexual violence to moral judgements that perpetuate a dualistic vision of the hero and the traitor.