"O QUE ARDE" DE OLIVER LAXE E O UNIVERSO POÉTICO DE UXÍO NOVONEYRA
"O QUE ARDE" BY OLIVER LAXE AND POETICAL UNIVERSE OF UXÍO NOVONEYRA

Author(s): Natalia Szejko
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: O que arde; Oliver Laxe; Uxío Novoneyra; transcendental cinema; slow cinema
Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyze the film "Fire Will Come" by Galician director Oliver Laxe, which was awarded "Un Certain Regard" Prize during Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and conduct comparative analysis with the poetry of Uxío Novoneyra. In both cases we would like to use the perspective of melancholy seen as part of the nature in which human being is immersed. One of the most important metaphors for Laxe and Novoneyra is the metaphor of fire and the process of burning seen as ancestral and auto-destructive ritual. We also propose to incorporate the analytical approach from Julia Kristeva's book "Black sun", dedicated to metaphorization of melancholy and depression. Finally, we also include comparison of Laxe´s movie with transcendental and slow cinema, depicting the inclination to convert cinema in art impregnated in human psycho.

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