Identities aside and at the borders. Frontier and maze in Arraianos (Eloi Enciso, 2012)

• Main Author: Fernando REDONDO NEIRA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2015-12-01
• Series: Fonseca: Journal of Communication
• Subjects: Frontera; territorio; laberinto; representación; trascendencia; identidad
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2172-9077/article/view/13439

The film studied here, Arraianos (Eloi Enciso, 2012), runs around a crossroad where the fictional and documentary converge, where a strong anti-naturalistic representation of a space and the human group that inhabits it are compared, and a willingness to visual inquiry into that space where traces of a mythical past that has been forming it still remains. Built on the material of the physical space that explores and interrogates, Arraianos displays a speech, also built on the telluric and the popular, it strives to realize the frontier character of that place, A Raia, between Galicia and Portugal, limit territory that has managed to build its own identity. The analysis we make of Arraianos should be focus on, therefore, with the help of the marks that report their hybrid nature. The film analysis we intend to carry out must, therefore, take into account this other space to which the film opens, that of a certain importance that does not avoid the big questions, at a time that will need to pay attention to a film it is located on the explored territory, based both on the telluric and the popular.