LA CIÉNAGA de Lucrecia Martel

Lucretia Martel is an Argentinian filmmaker whose fictional works are often mistaken for documental footage. I think that she employs sound as a way of immersing us in the perceptual, similar to the MacDougalls. She also uses a long-shot style, (althought I'm not sure it's as apparent in this clip), that is unusual in feature film. In this excerpt from La Cienaga, notice how the sounds inform our knowledge of the situation. In this media manipulated age, in which we see and believe, how might sound come to be the special refuge of the enthonographic filmmaker intersted in multi-voiced objectivities?

To give some background, this is a highly cerebral movie about Argentine cultural psyche, social decomposition, class, etc. It concerns a family of pepper-growers in the northern province of Salta, and what happens after the mother falls and cuts her chest on broken wine glasses.

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