Le Sud (1983, Victor Erice) – absence d’une dimension
The South (1983, Victor Erice) – the Absence of a Dimension

Summary/Abstract: A dimension of absence orientates the interactions and missed encounters of the main characters of Victor Erice’s movie El Sur. While spelled as absence and failure in the subject’s fantasy, this is also a more fundamental lack: an absent dimension that is effective in the characters’ histories. We think that this absence is close to the Lacanian concept of tuché, pertaining to the real as incomprehensible. Throughout the film, the relation between the father and the daughter is split by disjunction of knowledges (savoirs). While the fantasy of the subject is muddled by this traumatic real, we compare it to the cinematographic fiction as an alternative guide to the subject’s gaze.

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