Una apertura de Pina. Algunas reflexiones en torno al documental de Wim Wenders

Abstract

This article presents the analyse of the film Pina (2011) by Wim Wenders. The
documentary is about the history of the dancer Pina Bausch, more precisely, the story of
Pina as director and choreographer of the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Filmed in urban and
natural scenery of the German -Wuppertal city, home of the company, and with the help
of 3D technology, the film is composed of fragments of works, memoirs, and pictures.
As a starting point the article approaches the notion of film-esay and its link to the biographical documentary. It also describes some aspects of the film that we believe could match
with this non-gender- called film-esay. We work with the images of the film not as representations of reality, but as producers ones; images not only produce the world but they
produce ourselves. In this sense, the “we” that accompanies the verb “produce” challenges
us, as subjectivity. And we wonder what would happen with Pina without these images
that make possibe to think about her?. Is it possible to think about her as something independent of the images production? We believe that questionning about the biographical
implies to pose a quiestion about subjectivity and their modes of production. From these
problems, we approach the in-and-out theater space to think the dance theater space and
the dancer’s body as an actor and producer.