Experiencing Interruptions?

THE ELECTRIC SUBJECT

1 - SYNOPSIS | CONCEPT

Cinematography based on the preparation period for Yarina Serban's play “La puerta” (“The Door”) in Spain. Linked to the tradition of the human struggle to escape the inconsistency of one's own identity in the face of social authority that shapes the subject by controlling their social representation, it relates to the tragic myth of Oedipus in Sophocles and Segismundo in the Baroque literature of Calderón de la Barca. In the context of a profound crisis of reality afflicting the West in the 21st century and exerting pressure on the human body, THE ELECTRIC SUBJECT proposes a critical aesthetic for “an ecology of the digital body document,” based on “Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.” It highlights the problem of observation in the digital context, adding layers to the question of the basis of “knowledge” and the new social demagoguery surrounding the “representation of the event.”

2 - CONTEXT

THE ELECTRIC SUBJECT belongs to the multidisciplinary project "The night of the hashshashin" (https://alfonsolegaz.tumblr.com/hashshashin.night) developed by the Spanish artist Alfonso Legaz around dissensus (Rancière, 2010) and ontology of the so-called "documentary" cinema, focusing on the problem of Performance and Action Art documentary filmmaking. The project takes its name, and establishes its ethical and conceptual bases, from the lecture read by Alfonso Legaz at University Complutense of Madrid, “Congress-Homage to Jean-Luc Nancy, 2022”.

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  • Alfonso Legaz
    Director
  • Alfonso Legaz
    Writer
  • Alfonso Legaz
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 17, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital Full HD 1080, H264
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 1st International Congress on Film and Philosophy: The End of the World and Possible Futures (Cinematographics Imaginaries) | NATIONAL SCHOOL OF CINEMATOGRAPHICS ARTS - UNAM
    MEXICO CITY
    Mexico
    October 20, 2025
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Director Biography - Alfonso Legaz

Born in Düsseldorf of Spanish parents, he lives and works as a artist in multidisciplinary R&D processes in Valencia, Spain. He is Master in Photography, Art and Technique, by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with advanced studies in Philosophy, his practices link thought and Philosophy with contemporary art in its post-conceptual form. He researches and produces his artistic work orbiting around the categories of the "representable" and the "non-representable" that determine documentary construction and artistic practice, these categories being considered from the "ontological turn" proposed by the new Anthropology. His projects, produced and presented on an international stage, incorporate chance and indeterminacy as productive agents, with the collaboration and support of thinkers of the stature of Jean-Luc Nancy. Legaz experiments with highly participatory processes involving photography, cinematography, archives, oral testimony, psychoanalysis, artistic and scientific literature or the creative act of other artists.

The close relationship between contemporary thought and Alfonso Legaz's artistic production activates scenarios of socialisation of his visual work and theoretical contribution on specialised occasions, such as congresses, specific Aesthetics conferences, meetings in universities, where he presents specific elements of his production experience. His interest in the crisis of representation has led him to work with the direct participation of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, with whom he was in direct contact in the years prior to his death, producing essay films in Strasbourg linked to personal space and the experience of community deconstructed by the French philosopher.

His visual work, individually or as part of a team, has been carried out in various European countries, with local collaborators in each geographical environment. His production is included in specialised archives and libraries, Spanish and foreign documentary centres and art collections, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Archive of the Photographic Memory of the Spanish Civil War located at the Jaume I University, or the French documentary film centre Ardèche Images. His visual production has been presented in Spanish venues and events where he has received national awards for his photography, as well as in Festivals or exhibition centres in Glasgow, Dresden, Athens-Aegina, New York or Lussas.

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