Abstract
Travelogues or documentary video diaries are recurrent forms that autobiographical film adopts to undertake intimate searches on behalf of authors whose identity has been affected by the experience of displacement. The use of external movement -the physical voyage from the place where the filmmaker lives (the global) towards the town that he has abandoned (the local)- becomes a representation and allegory of the internal movement toward that symbolic site we call home. The article explores the narrative, aesthetic and formal structures deployed to reconstruct personal memory in David Perlov´s film DIARY, which transits among travelogue, personal diary, cinematographic essay and domestic home movies.
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