The Affective Turn in the Ibero-American Documentary (21st Century)

International seminar coordinated by Julie Amiot-Guillouet from Héritages research center.

In this colloquium, we are interested in how documentary scholars and professionals are thinking about documentary discourses from an affective perspective: from sobriety to emotion, discursive, aesthetic and financial resources, in relation to 21st century production in Latin American and Iberian countries.
The key lines shall be:
- The impact of the affective turn and its ethical dimensions in memory documentaries.
- The dominations of gender, race and class in the light of the affective turn in documentary cinema.
-Subjectivity and the authorial dimension of the documentaries of the affective turn.
This proposal arises as an extension of a series of events that have taken place within the international network Coloquio Internacional de Cine Iberoamericano, which for ten years (2010-2019) organized annual meetings between Europe and the Americas, promoting exchanges and debates between scholars and professionals on different aspects of
contemporary Latin American cinema. The organisation, over the years, has been the responsibility of four universities: Sorbonne Université, University of Guadalajara, Universitàt de Valencia and The GraduateCenter of the City University of New-York. Today we propose to take up this dynamic again in order to build up a new network and to organise a series
of colloquia that will be inaugurated through this first meeting on documentary film.