Cuerpo y archivo en movimiento: actos corporalizados y resistencia trans* en Quebranto (2013)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper analyzes director Roberto Fiesco's narrative and ethnographic approach in the documentary "Quebranto" (2013), focusing on Coral Bonelli, a transgender woman, dancer, and sex worker from Mexico City. Fiesco blends audiovisual techniques and archival footage to biographically depict Bonelli, using oral testimony and innovative editing. Drawing on Diana Taylor’s and Sarah Pink’s theories, the study explores how these elements manage the biographical and emotional depth of Bonelli's story. It examines spatial elements in the film, which construct a narrative voice and contribute to Bonelli’s portrayal. Ultimately, the paper explores how Fiesco’s strategies convey Bonelli’s transcendence through archival footage, personal performance, and narrative innovation, pushing the boundaries of documentary cinema in representing queer subjectivity.
Source: Mester
DOI: 10.5070/m3.38041
Author: Raúl Romo
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410412882