A girl runs among horses

Essaying an affective and territorial analysis of Las Mil y Una (2020)

Abstract

Over the last decade and a half, Argentine national filmography has been flooded with formal, critical and conceptual explorations carried out by projects that ex-plore varied horizons from peripheral places of enuncia-tion. The construction of regional subjects and spaces in cinema becomes more complex when a greater number of directors from non-Buenos Aires provinces emerge, putting in tension the hegemonic values of metropolitan culture. That is to say, the appearance of territorialized discourses enables us to think that the experiences of those who inhabit a territory are impregnated in their works, at the same time that they provide a world, die-gesis, socio-historical foundation and a system of social relations of reference. This makes it possible to imagine that territories —previously absent— are inscribed in culture, when they generate a map of characteristics and ways of being for social, cultural and academic fields.Las Mil y Una (2020), the second film by Clarisa Navas —a filmmaker from Corrientes— continues the line of Hoy Partido a las Tres (2017) by constructing a story that takes place in the Argentine litoral, a region where she is originally from, with characters—from non–central regions— that defy the logics of gender binarism. This film stages the social role of women, the problems of the LGBTQI+ community, the logic of pu-blic and private life strained by hypermediatizations, the displacement of popular neighborhoods to the outskirts of big cities and the logics of the neighborhood ocracy, among others; with a deep social criticism, love for the subjects it (re)presents and transversalized by a strong territorial warp.