Acercarse al Alzheimer a través del cuerpo. Hacia una estética acuática en el documental Nedar (2008), de Carla Subirana
- Autores: Berit Callsen
- Localización: Imágenes de la vejez: Diversidad funcional y envejecimiento en las artes escénicas españolas / coord. por David Conte Imbert, Alba Gómez García, Alejandra Aventín Fontana, 2025, ISBN 978-3-11-156129-5
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
The documentary Nedar by Catalan director and screen writer Carla Subirana(1972) represents an extraordinary example of how the cinematographicimage can create a different approach to Alzheimerʼs overcoming pathological discoursesthat still today circulate in medical contexts. In doing so, that is the hypothesisexplored in this work, the documentary creates a special hydro-aestheticsthat gathers a heterogeneous multitude of memories and experiences constitutinga metonymy of remembering and reshaping the notions of loss and decline associatedwith Alzheimerʼs. Finally, the film appeals to the memorial work of every spectator.In addition, the leitmotif of swimming draws attention to the function of thebody in processes of forgetting and remembering, a bodily interest that also comesinto sight in theoretical positions from social gerontology, cultural sciences, neurologyand anthropology discussing old age and Alzheimerʼs.
