El film de montaje. Una propuesta tipológica

Abstract

The "montage film" offers a discourse that gives new meanings to previous materials, because it assembles images and sounds recorded with different purpose. The process of recontextualizing implicitly establishes a critical exercise and inquires into how some images were produced and received. Depending on the level of formal experimentation and its critical and mediatic charge, we discern three types of footage films: a) "informative compilation", close to conventional documentary and fairly respectful with the original sense of the recycled images; b) "ironic montage", visually close to compilation but which intends to subvert ideological values or mainstream discourse; c) and "collage", where the avant-garde aesthetic and the deconstruction developed by the editing process challenges the referenciality of images.