Ensuciar el cine y las buenas costumbres. Una lectura queer de "Diapasón" de Jorge Polaco en el marco de la recuperación democrática

Abstract

This paper analyzes Jorge Polaco's first feature film, Diapasón (1986), from a queer and sex-dissident perspective within the framework of post-dictatorship Argentine cinema. Although homosexuality is not the central theme, we propose that the film seeks to undermine and contaminate heterosexuality understood as a political regime, along with its most important institutions, such as family and morality. Likewise, the anti-realist formal approach (camp and baroque) and the thematization of the city's filth, as well as the violence involved in its sanitization, allow us to consider it from a queer perspective. The film, therefore, reveals both thematically and formally the rupture that separates the normal from the abnormal. Through its allusion to the dictatorial past, it exposes the extermination plan as an anthropological machine that not only cleanses the social filth but also the impurities of sexuality