Image as a memory of the horror: keys of reading in El Brujo

Abstract

Presents the voice of a photographer´s son who is fugitive due to the harassment he suffers because of the registers produced in Chile in the end of the eighties. In his journey of escape, the sucession of facts connect a narrative of the horror, in which a series of disconnected situations are revealed; a mysterious crime that haunts him, the specters that he has photographed, the threats that the Memory and the sequences of the landscape that seems to devour it, symbolized through the account of the experiences from the son´s voice who trespasses the testimony listened from his father, materializing scenes of horror hatched in the violence and the constant distress of the Memory. For this, an analysis of the elements that hatch this account is done, from the perspective of the concept of the image and the Memory of the horror as a narratological continent of the violence and its posible reading keys.