How to apprehend what cannot be seen with an artifact that only captures the evident movement of things? asks David Oubiña, defiantly. Ceremonias de lo invisible proposes to the reader to think of cinema. No longer as a device of representation, but as a machine capable of perceiving the limits of experience, where cinematographic images lose their character of transparency to enter into dilemmas and tensions of reality.

In this book, death will be considered as mass annihilation or as an individual and coincidental accident. Both concepts, inverted and complementary, are reviewed by the author in two short essays that are shown in the films Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) and Ugetsu, The tales of the wave after the rain moon (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953).

David Oubiña has a PhD in Literature from University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and majored in Cinema at the same institution. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of London and a visiting professor at the University of Bergen, New York University and University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the magazines Las Ranas (arte, ensayo y traducción) and Revista de cine. He has received grants from the Fulbright Commission, the British Council, Fundación Antorchas and Argentine National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published the books: Filmología. Ensayos con el cine (2000, First Essay Award of the Argentine National Endowment for the Arts); El cine de Hugo Santiago (2002); Jean-Luc Godard: el pensamiento del cine (2003); Estudio crítico sobre La ciénaga, de Lucrecia Martel (2007); Una juguetería filosófica: Cine, cronofotografía y arte digital (2009) and El silencio y sus bordes. Modos de lo extremo en la literatura y el cine (2011, Third National Essay Award).