Encrucijadas en el desierto blanco. Viajes de descubrimiento y expediciones científicas en Werner Herzog y Adriana Lestido

Abstract

| In this work, we aim to analyse two works —one cinematic and the other literary— which originated in voyages to the white desert of the Antarctic. The landscapes are poetically presented in these works as desolate, menacing, and isolated, thus linking them with the aesthetic category of the sublime. In Encounters at the End of the World (2007), the filmmaker Werner Herzog lives together with scientists at McMurdo Antarctic base and depicts them as figures of that white landscape. In Antártida negra (2017) Adriana Lestido, the photographer, sets off in on a trip in search of the absolute white. In view of the former, it is our aim to study the way in which these works take place in the landscapes of the sublime: what changes, what stays, what was sought and what is finally found, and how this solitude and this purity are represented in our time.