I look for native images that respond to invasive images. Interview with César González

Abstract

César González is a writer, poet and filmmaker with several books and fictional works that place him at odds with what happens on a large scale in contemporary cinema. In his work, his own experience of being imprisoned stands out as well as a politicized narrative of what it means to live in the slums of the province of Buenos Aires. Thanks to this, the author has received awards, distinctions and multiple accolades that make him an acclaimed artist, but at the same time, someone deeply uncomfortable in his time.
How can we construct a text that does not fetishize our interviewer and his work within a contemporary cultural industry that profits from this? In this interview with César we were interested in addressing a particular issue: to understand his perspective on the gaze that the public university constructs on territories socially read as vulnerable, be they prisons or working-class neighborhoods. From our own research interests and based on his work "El fetichismo de la marginalidad" (2021), we wanted to stress the boundaries that produce cultural goods, university interventions and state forms of managing differences and otherness.