Windows, cameras, and personas: autofiction as a reflexive act of insurgency in Jafar Panahi’s prison cinema

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Márcio
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/41289
• topic: Autobiografia; Autoficção; Reflexividade; Jafar Panahi; Isto não é um filme

Since being sentenced to house arrest by the Iranian government, filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been making films that blur the lines between documentary and fiction by playing versions of himself. Based on the aestheticlimitations imposed by a condition of censorship and denial of the filmmaking, this article analyzes scenes and elements from the films This is not a film (2011) and Closed Curtain (2013). In these films, he places his own subjectivity in a play that combines the reflexivity of the “new Iranian  cinema” (MELEIRO, 2008; SADR, 2006; TAPPER, 2006) with an act of political insurgency against his repressors. Inthis article, we analyze how the autobiographical (LEJEUNE, 2014; LANE, 2002), autofictional (DOUBROVSKY, 1977; COLONNA, 2004) and reflective (GIDDENS, 2002; RUBY, 1996) dimensions are imprinted in different ways in these films. In them, autofiction is understood as a place that tensions reality and fiction, person and character, denials and affirmations around the films and the director.