L’ iconoclasme poetique : modalites de deconstruction et de reconstruction d’un texte culturel et filmique

Abstract

Raoul Ruiz and Alexandre Jodorowski have questioned the cultural text of the colonization of America in their films. The first one, in The Suspended Vocation, by the demolition of a theological part of speech which tended to legitimize the conquista and its consequences; the second, in The Holy Mountain, by a shaping mise en abyme, who brings into conflict, as a bloody fight, toads representing conquistadores, and chameleons represented the Indians. In these two movies, the political meaning of the narrative comes along with a demolition of this one, associated with a particular form of iconoclasm, which constitutes a questioning of the initial cultural text and its representation in images. These directors at the same time revisit a second cultural text, that of the life as a dream and of the theatrum mundi, which also questions the reality of the image. Finally, this destruction allows a transfer of the sacred to the art; the ruizian shamanism and the jodorowskian syncretism tending to be substituted for the Christian religious imaging.