Lo digital como continuum del archivo análogo: El caso del documental Locas Mujeres (2010) y cómo Gabriela Mistral vive a través de la preservación análoga y digital.

Abstract

This is a study on how the archive is managed and understood in its most traditional concept (walled, physical, unique) and how it can exists in a malleable medium such as digital. The question is: is it possible to talk about the archive in the digital medium, which is ephemeral by nature? It opens analysis and proposes the idea that the digital is capable of conserving and preserving, but only under certain circumstances that demand change in the understanding of the archive.
Focused on Elena Wood's documentary, Locas Mujeres (2010), the study proposes a continuum of preservation and conservation that ranges from the analogous, physical and material terrain; towards the digital film archive. The film represents how Doris Dana preserved, for 50 years, original and literary material of Gabriela Mistral, from her notes and notebooks, to photographs, audios, newspaper clippings, etc. The result was an entire room of information, and the responsibility to preserve and conserve it, was in the hands of Doris Dana's niece, Doris Atkinson. Therefore, Wood decides to make a film about the Mistral archive, which results in the archiving of the archive.

Archive

Mistral

Digital

Mad Womens