Film and heritage: the reflected image

Abstract

The relationship between cinema and heritage can be approached from two perspectives, an intrinsic reflection on the film itself as a heritage and an extrinsic vision to study the point of view that cinema offers from heritage. This paper focuses on this second look, showing a mirror image of heritage from cinema. The assumption is that cinema attracts us do to its ability to make us travel with the imagination, either to real or fictional places that become part of our visual imaginary. Insofar as we know them formerly, there will be a personal link during the screening of the film that will make us to appropriate it. That's why we think that many films are located in landscapes, cities and monumental buildings.

This presence of heritage in cinema can be given in many ways. This creative look of film is recognized when: - Spreads consolidated elements - Documents representative places that no longer exist or have changed - Revaluates as emerging heritage elements that had gone unnoticed - Transfers values from the real place to the fictional scene and vice versa - Monumentalizes other kinds of heritage and even imaginary elements

The expected result is to study theses phenomena (reality, transformation and invention) to evaluate the transference of significance between cinema and heritage