Out of home

Family and space in Mi amiga del parque and Los salvajes

Abstract

This article studies the spatial axes that cross the family organization in Argentine films Mi amiga del parque/ My friend from the park (Ana Katz, 2015) and Los salvajes/ The wild ones (Alejandro Fadel, 2012). These two productions coincide in formulating links related to the family out of home, and in this sense, in an exterior built as a particularly helpless and dangerous territory, as opposed to the values of care and order attributed traditionally to the domestic circle. The analysis of both films discovers the tensions of the androcentric, reproductive and domestic disciplines, in dialogue with the social and political disputes that, for a decade, occur around the family in Argentina. At the same time, the trajectories of the characters, even with their differences, reveal the expiration of conventional modes and the eventuality of incorporating the non-recognizable as part of the family ties.