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EXPERIENCING THE LAND: THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM (WERNER HERZOG, 1984) AND CHARLIE’S COUNTRY (ROLF DE HEER, 2013)

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This article proposes to explore an aesthetic problem—how can film express an idea of space that is both material and cultural?—that is complicated by an ethical and political problem—how can you try and express such experiences when they are not your culture’s own? It analyzes two films, Where the Green Ants Dream (Werner Herzog, 1984) and Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer, 2013), that deal with politically charged material: the struggles of Aboriginal peoples and after the 1992 Mabo decision. Both films are politically committed and deliver overt critiques of the policing of the land and its inhabitants by a white capitalist order. But by striving to aesthetically evoke the singularities of Aboriginal view of the land, an experience in which the spiritual and the material, the cultural and the sensible, past and present, are intermeshed, they are also attempting to produce what Jacques Rancière calls a “distribution of the sensible.” I argue that each film represents an endeavor by a white director to address an aesthetic problem that is equally political—how do you express an other conception of space-time?—and that they are also, albeit to varying degrees, conscious that the frameworks they rely on come with their own limitations.
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David Roche. EXPERIENCING THE LAND: THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM (WERNER HERZOG, 1984) AND CHARLIE’S COUNTRY (ROLF DE HEER, 2013). La Furia Umana, 2020, 38, http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/72-lfu-38/933-david-roche-experiencing-the-land-the-politics-of-aesthetics-in-where-the-green-ants-dream-werner-herzog-1984-and-charlie-s-country-rolf-de-heer-2013. ⟨hal-02484142⟩
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