Projected writing: poetry and visuality in Lejano interior (2020) by Mariano Llinás

Abstract

On several occasions the appropriations that Mariano Llinás's cinema makes on procedures typical of literature, more specifically narrative, were studied. Voice-over has been analyzed as a mechanism that links his cinema with fictional narration. During isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Llinás was unable to go outside to film his monumental films, but he shot inside his house Lejano interior (2020), a medium-length film that takes his cinema to an “out of it” also from literature, but this time in dialogue with a genre that until now had not been reappropriated in his films: poetry. The objective of this work is to analize the medium-length film / poetry book Lejano interior from its continuities and distancing from the use of voice-over in Historias extraordinarias (2008), both productions essentially related by the common purpose of bringing word and image closer together.