An imposible new world. The Incident and the political consequences of cinematic space. DOI:10.37785/nw.v4n1.a4

Abstract

The Incident (2014), the first feature-length by Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban, is a fantasy film that tells two parallel stories in which a group of characters end up trapped in “impossible” spaces for decades. Through these claustrophobic scenarios, the film takes a stand in respect of those daily, boring, exhaustive routines in cities, and the phantasm of the desire to live another life, to have taken a different decision, to have done things differently. Every construction of the actual world dwells among the constructions of possible worlds, so every actual subject dwells among different, possible versions of her/himself too. This paper examines, through selected sequences of the film, and using theoretical tools from critical architecture and cyberspace critique, how in the cities different versions of our lives coexist, and why it is important to recognize them so we can begin to imagine a different city, a different and better life.