Testimonies in spite of all.

On Camuflaje (Perel, 2022)

Abstract

This work analyzes the film Camuflaje (Perel, 2022), considering its choices in representating of the last Argentine civil-military dictatorship – and the validity of its effects –, as evidenced in the characterization it makes of one of its spaces: the emblematic Campo de Mayo garrison, where several clandestine torture and detention centers operated. The narrative structure of the film is organized based on the presence of conversations and dialogues between the writer Félix Bruzzone and a group of people linked in various ways to Campo de Mayo. The approach problematizes the relationships between the word and the image, the entity of the testimony, the limits of representation, the links between past and present times and the relevance of using “formulas of representation” (Burucúa; Kiatkowski, 2014), to give an account of the links between a historical event included in the category of genocide and the ways of considering it from the point of view of cultural production, in this case filmic discourse.