Abstract

CABRERA, Julio. Towards a Philosophical non-understanding of Films: The Lynch's Inland Empire Case. Enlace [online]. 2009, vol.6, n.2, pp.111-127. ISSN 1690-7515.

This paper puts in question the hermeneutic approach to the philosophical analysis of films, by showing this approach inadequate to allow the sense and truth of works of cinema arise and develop. An interactive and performative approach seems to be better. Cinematographic works as David Lynch’s help to understand this shift from the hermeneutic conception of truth to the interactive one, if we can see these films as genuine "hermeneutic impossibilities". The paper also contains a criticism against the hermeneutic approach still sustained in my book Cine: 100 años de filosofía (Cinema: 100 years of philosophy), 1999.

Keywords : Interpretation; Hermeneutics; Interaction; Performance; David Lynch; Inland Empire.