Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject.

Historical reenactments; Documentary films; Fantasy (Psychology); Deception; Chile, Obstinate Memory (Film); Capturing the Friedmans (Film); Guzmán, Patricio, 1941-; Jarecki, Andrew, 1963-

The article focuses on the role played by reenactments in documentary films. It talks about the questions posed by the experience of temporality and the presence of fantasy in documentary and the issue of deceit which arises when the distinction between reenactment and enactment goes unrecognized. The fantasmatic experience explored in the documentary video "Chile, Obstinate Memory," by Patricio Guzmán and the account of desubjectivization in "Capturing the Friedmans," by Andrew Jarecki are discussed.