Perlov’s Diary: a practice of justness. [DOI:10.37785/nw.v5n1.a10]

Abstract

This article discusses Diary (1983) by David Perlov, as it being a clear milestone in a Latin American itinerary which in recent decades, represents a pre-eminence of the documentary essay. It reflects upon the relation of distance and proximity between the act of seeing and the image it relates to, raising questions about the connection of the essayist with himself and his environment and how the filmmaker deals with this distancing.