Embodying transnational shared space : Pirjo Honkasalo’s The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
(2016) In Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6(2). p.119-135- Abstract
- The article investigates the ways in which Pirjo Honkasalo’s documentary The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), examining the impact of the Russian-Chechen war on children, engenders a transnational audience through cinematic qualities, and most importantly through embodiment, producing a strongly affective resonance in the spectator. I argue that through a strategically affective approach to transnationality, the documentary establishes what I call a transnational shared space, structured by a complex dialectics of sharing and non-sharing. My argument revolves around the concept of cinema as a shared space, referring to films that deliberately ‘surround’ the viewer rather than maintain a distance. As the analysis shows, Honkasalo’s... (More)
- The article investigates the ways in which Pirjo Honkasalo’s documentary The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), examining the impact of the Russian-Chechen war on children, engenders a transnational audience through cinematic qualities, and most importantly through embodiment, producing a strongly affective resonance in the spectator. I argue that through a strategically affective approach to transnationality, the documentary establishes what I call a transnational shared space, structured by a complex dialectics of sharing and non-sharing. My argument revolves around the concept of cinema as a shared space, referring to films that deliberately ‘surround’ the viewer rather than maintain a distance. As the analysis shows, Honkasalo’s documentary pushes the spectator to reflect critically on transnationality and reconsider mass media-created memory of the military conflict. The article addresses issues underlying the film’s ethical quest, such as whether this shared space involves both western (Catholic) and non-western (Orthodox and Muslim) audiences, and what the limits are of transnationalism in documentary film. (Less)
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- Mrozewicz, Anna LU
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- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
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- Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
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- 6
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Intellect Ltd.
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- scopus:85012299261
- ISSN
- 2042-7891
- DOI
- 10.1386/jsca.6.2.119_1
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- English
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abstract = {{The article investigates the ways in which Pirjo Honkasalo’s documentary The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), examining the impact of the Russian-Chechen war on children, engenders a transnational audience through cinematic qualities, and most importantly through embodiment, producing a strongly affective resonance in the spectator. I argue that through a strategically affective approach to transnationality, the documentary establishes what I call a transnational shared space, structured by a complex dialectics of sharing and non-sharing. My argument revolves around the concept of cinema as a shared space, referring to films that deliberately ‘surround’ the viewer rather than maintain a distance. As the analysis shows, Honkasalo’s documentary pushes the spectator to reflect critically on transnationality and reconsider mass media-created memory of the military conflict. The article addresses issues underlying the film’s ethical quest, such as whether this shared space involves both western (Catholic) and non-western (Orthodox and Muslim) audiences, and what the limits are of transnationalism in documentary film.}},
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publisher = {{Intellect Ltd.}},
series = {{Journal of Scandinavian Cinema}},
title = {{Embodying transnational shared space : Pirjo Honkasalo’s The 3 Rooms of Melancholia}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca.6.2.119_1}},
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