Unfinished thinking and the unfinished film: feminist filmmaking in Cuba, Catalunya, and Scotland

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dc.contributor.authorArchibald, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorBaró, Núria Araünaen
dc.contributor.editorAlexander, Lawrenceen
dc.contributor.editorPérez-Osorio, Javieren
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-11T13:12:25Z
dc.date.available2025-11-11T13:12:25Z
dc.date.issued2025-10-23en
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationArchibald, 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.2930.09en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.2930.09en
dc.identifier.endpage182en
dc.identifier.issued29-30
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage165en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18179
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectCubaen
dc.subjectVideomakingen
dc.subjectFilmmakingen
dc.subjectTranslocalen
dc.titleUnfinished thinking and the unfinished film: feminist filmmaking in Cuba, Catalunya, and Scotlanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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