#PrecarityStory: Academic Casualisation and Feminist Filmmaking

Isabel Seguí; Lorena Cervera

doi:10.1386/9781789387438_25

#PrecarityStory: Academic Casualisation and Feminist Filmmaking

Isabel Seguí, Lorena Cervera

Film & Visual Culture

Arts University Bournemouth

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Abstract

Amidst the UK higher education strikes, Lorena Cervera and Isabel Seguí codirected #PrecarityStory, a short documentary that exposes the increasing precarisation of academic labour at universities. Released in 2020, the film follows a working day in the life of Isabel who, at that time, was a cleaner, researcher, and teacher at the same British elite institution. This is a (self-consciously) performative documentary (Bruzzi, 2006) inspired methodologically by the transmediatic form of Latin American testimonio, where an individual subject stands for a community and the film is an activist artefact in which ‘reality’ is managed creatively to further the political agenda of the filmmakers. This chapter explores the complexities of this approach in which a filmmaker and an empowered film subject join forces to challenge an exploitative workplace and interrogate the mode of production of collaborative cinemas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Constructions of the Real
Subtitle of host publication	Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory
Editors	Christine Rogers, Kim Munro, Liz Burke, Catherine Gough-Brady
Place of Publication	Bristol
Publisher	Intellect Books
Chapter	20
Pages	11
Number of pages	235
ISBN (Electronic)	9781789387445
ISBN (Print)	9781789387438
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387438_25
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2023
Event	WayWORD Festival 2023 - University of Aberdeen; Aberdeen Arts Centre; Music Hall Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Duration: 16 Sept 2023 → 30 Sept 2023 http://www.waywordfestival.com

Festival

Festival	WayWORD Festival 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Aberdeen
Period	16/09/23 → 30/09/23
Internet address	http://www.waywordfestival.com

Keywords

alternative cinemas
Cine Mujer
collective filmmaking
documentary cinema
feminist documentary
feminist film collectives
film history
Latin American cinema
Latin American women's documentary
political cinema
Women's cinema

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#PrecarityStory: Academic Casualisation and Feminist Filmmaking. / Seguí, Isabel; Cervera, Lorena.
Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory. ed. / Christine Rogers; Kim Munro; Liz Burke; Catherine Gough-Brady. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2023. p. 11.

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