An optical effect (2020): does fiction still exist?
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Jacques Aumont wonders about if it is still possible to talk about fiction within the new digital paradigm. This paper reproduces this question by analyzing Juan Cavestany´s An Optical Illusion (2020). The article attends to the concept of fiction exposed by Jacques Aumont in Limits of fiction (2016) by focusing on the problems derived from the new limits proposed by the author as typical of contemporary fiction. It is proposed an approach to An Optical Illusion under three perspectives. First of all, in relation to the postcontinuous cinema that Steven Shaviro defined in 2012, where causality and spatial continuity have been diluted. The second perspective regards the influence of the burlesque genre on the film and in particular in the conversion of Jacques Tati's labyrinthine and interactive gag into a mental gag as a symptom of the psychosis of the characters with respect to the very fiction they experience. Finally, the importance of lynchian fiction for the understanding of the contemporary audiovisual panorama. The paper ends with the film analysis, which aims to answer the initial question in order to draw some general conclusions about the new status of fiction in the era of streaming and post-digital reality.
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