Flowing Bodies: Autoethnographies of Desire in "Christmas on Earth", "Fuses" and "Je, tu, il, elle"

Moreno Pellejero, Ariadna

Flowing Bodies: Autoethnographies of Desire in "Christmas on Earth", "Fuses" and "Je, tu, il, elle"

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Moreno Pellejero, A. Flowing Bodies: Autoethnographies of Desire in "Christmas on Earth", "Fuses" and "Je, tu, il, elle". 2021. url: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/373365

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This article explores how three women filmmakers express their ways of understanding and experiencing pleasure, based on a comparative study of Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963), Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1964–67) and Je, tu, il, elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974). By filming the subculture to which they belong or presenting themselves in the sexual act in a way that emulates ritual, these filmmakers recognize their own sexuality in opposition to the model that relegates the woman to the role of muse. Drawing on Artaud’s concept of ritual and his “Body without Organs,” this analysis posits the possibility of the concept of “flowing bodies,” referring to bodies in motion that affirm their own pleasure, andproposes to describe the three films explored here as “autoethnographies of desire.”
El presente artículo pretende revisar en qué forma algunas realizadoras muestran su modo de entender y experimentar el placer a partir del estudio comparado de Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963), Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1964–67) y Je, tu, il, elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974). Estas realizadoras filman la subcultura de la que forman parte o se presentan a sí mismas en el acto sexual en una forma que emula lo ritual con la que reconocen su propia sexualidad, frente al modelo de mujer relegada al rol musa. Partimos de lo ritual y del “cuerpo sin órganos” en Artaud y planteamos el término “cuerpos que fluyen”, en referencia a aquellos cuerpos en movimiento que afirman su propio placer, así como esbozamos la posibilidad de considerar estos trabajos como “autoetnografías del deseo”.