ASSEMBLY IN DIAGRAMS: A Study of Temporality Relations and Narrative Focusing in Fictional Film Works
Montage, diagram, temporality, focalization.
This work seeks to explore how the relations established between narrative temporalities and focalizations are articulated through the montage in the films The Burning Plain (Guillermo Arriaga, 2008), and 11:14 (Greg Marcks, 2003). By means of the development of diagrammatic representations of certain cinematic elements, we aim to achieve a greater understanding of the role montage plays in these movies, both of which are marked by the fact that they follow the perspectives of multiple characters, and that their narratives are not presented in the order the events presumably took place in the diegesis. Through this analysis we seek to investigate different possibilities of temporal and focal narrative construction, and we pose that the use of diagrams is a particularly adequate process for analyzing montage.