The Poetics of Lucía Seles' Cinema

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  • Macarena Bialski Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

argentine cinema, women film director, Shklovski, BAFICI

Abstract

This article aims to critically approach the audiovisual phenomenon of Lucía Seles. Drawing on Shklovski’s (1916) concept of defamiliarization, we will examine how tetralogía del odio desencadenada—as Seles refers to her four Tennis Complex films—frees objects, situations, and cinema itself from the automatism of daily life, revealing the world in a different way. This is achieved through a cinema of poetry (Pasolini, 1970), employing repetition and improvisation—evident in performances and the printed texts on the screen—that shape the filmmaker’s authorial imprint.

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Author Biography

Macarena Bialski, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Licenciada en Artes con orientación en Cine y Artes Audiovisuales por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Allí es adscripta de la cátedra “Problemas del cine y el audiovisual en Latinoamérica”. En 2024 ganó la Beca UBAINT para profundizar sus estudios en la universidad francesa Université Paris 8. Participa como escritora colaboradora en la Revista Taipei | Crítica de cine. E-mail: macarenabialski@gmail.com

Published

2026-04-30

How to Cite

Bialski, M. (2026). The Poetics of Lucía Seles’ Cinema. Imagofagia, (33), 7–27. Retrieved from https://imagofagia.asaeca.org/index.php/imagofagia/article/view/1106

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