Crossroads in the White Desert. Voyages of Discovery and Scientific Expeditions with Warner Herzog and Adriana Lestido

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2023.29.7

Keywords:

Landscape, The Sublime, Essay Film, Travel Writing

Abstract

In this work, we aim to analyse two works —one cinematic and the other literary— which originated in voyages to the white desert of the Antarctic. The landscapes are poetically presented in these works as desolate, menacing, and isolated, thus linking them with the aesthetic category of the sublime. In Encounters at the End of the World (2007), the filmmaker Werner Herzog lives together with scientists at McMurdo Antarctic base and depicts them as figures of that white landscape. In Antártida negra(2017) Adriana Lestido, the photographer,  sets off in on a trip in search of the absolute white. In view of the former, it is our aim to study the way in which these works take place in the landscapes of the sublime: what changes, what stays, what was sought and what is finally found, and how this solitude and this purity are represented in our time.

Author Biography

Natalia Accossano Pérez, LabTIS – Universidad Nacional de Río Negro

Graduada en la Licenciatura en Letras de la UNRN en 2015, actualmente becaria doctoral de CONICET, en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación “El ensayo documental: memoria de la memoria” (Sede Andina – UNRN), bajo la dirección de los Profesores Ana Lía Gabrieloni y Rubén Guzmán. En el mismo, investiga las manifestaciones del paisaje sublime en el cine ensayo.

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Published

2023-07-26

How to Cite

Accossano Pérez, N. (2023). Crossroads in the White Desert. Voyages of Discovery and Scientific Expeditions with Warner Herzog and Adriana Lestido. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (29), 107–123. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2023.29.7

Issue

No. 29 (2023): Escritura, crítica y crisis climática: el trabajo académico en la era de la extinción

Section

Monograph

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