ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe the materiality of objects in a process of affective remembering seen as a re-encounter that builds bridges across times and spaces. It deals with reference to the some most films of Chilean director Patricio Guzman. Guzman embraces the ‘vertigo of inhuman scale’ and rethinks agency beyond the small-scale frames of the Anthropocene. The chapter draws on Jill Bennett’s notion of an art that is ‘transactive’ rather than ‘communicative,’ that is to say, art that, rather than being simply communicative, examines ‘how affect is produced within and through a work, and how it might be experienced by an audience coming to the work.’ Valentina seems to echo Bennett, for whom fragmentation, disjunction, and the inability of the whole to be whole again, are some of the preoccupations of our contemporary sense of disenchantment with material reality.
