Towards a Metamodern Cinema: Critical Elements for a Debate between Metamodernism and Film Writing

Abstract

The article proposes a reflection on the hypothetical existence of a metamodernist cinema, taking as a reference the three fields proposed in the work of den Akker, Gibbons and Vermeulen: affects, historicity and depthness. We will explore the possibility of a cinema that during the last two decades has participated in the questioning of the commonplaces of postmodernity in search of a "between", a recovery of certain legacies of modernity. This idea is placed in the general context of the theories of cinema after the New Cinephilia, which already pointed to the resurgence of a certain idea of "international modernity" that coincided, in turn, with the emergence of a whole series of new styles, categories and schools: from Mumblecore to Quirky Cinema, from the Other New Spanish Female Cinema to the rise of autofiction. We propose here traits and ideas common to these movements that allow us to clarify what is happening on the basis of two major milestones: reflection on film writing itself and the way in which, by projecting itself into the future, it configures and proposes different possible worlds that avoid the trap of nostalgia