Beyond the margins: rethinking the ethical-political role of the "offscreen" in the audio-visual journalistic narrative
Abstract
This article analyzes the possibility of finding compositional characteristics in a particular audiovisual language tool, the “offscreen”, that could favor the production of journalistic narratives in which the ethical-political aspect of what is represented is prioritized over the aesthetic one. These characteristics are especially relevant in a context in which the post-truth paradigm in the mass media seems to have come to stay. To do this, first, I will analyze the definition that the documentary filmmaker and thinker, Jean-Louis Comolli, makes of the offscreen and, secondly, I will exemplify it through the narrative and compositional strategies of Agarrando pueblo (1978), documentary made by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina.
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