Visualising In/Equalities through Contemporary Documentary Cinema. A Diffractive Reading of Feminist Practices in Spanish and Italian Non-Fiction Films

Abstract

My multi-layered hypothesis is that feminist material-discursive practices enacted either by documentary filmmakers, filmed subjects or film spectators, have effects on the visualisation of in/equalities in and through the films content and form, but also in and through their contexts of production and reception. In order to identify these effects, contemporary documentary cinema that deals with social inequalities rooted in, but not limited to, gender, can be analysed as a diffraction apparatus, i.e. technologies that create boundaries and make the world intelligible through intra-actions between human and non-human agencies of observation and objects of observation.