Unfinished thinking and the unfinished film: feminist filmmaking in Cuba, Catalunya, and Scotland
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2025-10-23
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Archibald, David
Baró, Núria Araüna
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Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
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Abstract
This article reflects on a creative research project which utilises audiovisual technologies to foster conversations with feminist activists in four historically related cities— Havana (Cuba) which is twinned with Glasgow (Scotland), and Matanzas (Cuba) which is twinned with Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalunya). Under the banner “Ragged Cinema”, we are undertaking a project which brings together feminists across the four cities to explore how no-budget, collaborative filmmaking might be utilised to encourage experience sharing between activists in the Global South and the Global North, and develop translocal networks of support and solidarity. By developing a crosscultural project rooted in specific patriarchal states, capitalist and communist, we aim to amplify the often-unheard voices of nonstate actors. In December 2023, a step towards this occurred when work-in-process films made by the activists were presented at the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana (International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana) alongside a festival symposium organised with our Cuban partners under the heading “Cine dialógico” (“Dialogical Cinema”). This article combines images from an unfinished academic film and an experimental written text, and seeks to illustrate the merits, or otherwise, of analysing academic work in a state of incompleteness.
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Feminism , Cuba , Videomaking , Filmmaking , Translocal
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Archibald, D. and Araüna Baró, N. (2025) ‘Unfinished thinking and the unfinished film: feminist filmmaking in Cuba, Catalunya, and Scotland’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 29–30, pp. 165–182. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.2930.09