As Others See Them: 9-11 in Shorts, por Juan Ariel Gómez

Juan Ariel Gómez teaches English and American Literature at Idioma Inglés: Nivel Avanzado, Comunicación Integral and Literatura Inglesa at the Profesorado de Inglés, UNMdP. Since 1997 he has been a member of Professor Bradford’s research team “Problems in Comparative Literature.” In 2007 he finished his MA in Comparative Literature from State University of New York, Stony Brook with the support of a Fulbright scholarship.

What representational possibilities do artistic languages afford when attempting to narrate a given event? What variables should the critical reader center on as a means of assessing the operations or procedures implemented in cultural texts? How much can the artistic craft align or adjust to the intrinsic political or ideological undercurrents involved in representing such events? The previous questions will be examined, and possibly, some of them, tentatively answered, when reading two short films seeking to represent and reconstruct 9-11 yet from the point of view of what might be considered an-other gaze “regarding the pain of others,” to borrow Susan Sontag’s words.