Feminist documentary cinema as a diffraction apparatus for the visualisation of care labour: the Spanish collective film Cuidado, resbala (2013)

Calderón, Orianna

Abstract

This essay analyses the Spanish documentary film Cuidado, resbala (María Camacho Gómez, Montserrat Clos Fabuel, Mercedes Cordero Suárez, Vanessa Gómez Martínez, Carolina Suarez Rasmussen and Leonor Jiménez Moreno, 2013) as a diffraction apparatus that renders visible gendered inequalities surrounding care labour in the current socio-economic system. The title of Cuidado, resbala plays with the two meanings of the word “cuidado” in Spanish and can be translated as Caution/Care Slippery. It is directed by two psychologists, a pedagogue, a lawyer, a teacher and a filmmaker from two different associations based in Malaga, Spain: Circle of Women and The Inverted Gaze. Circle of Women was created in 1994 with the aim of promoting fair working conditions for women by means of participatory action research. The Inverted Gaze is a network of communication professionals whose work focuses on social issues; after Cuidado, resbala, they directed Boconas (Big Mouth Women, 2016) about Bolivian domestic workers, and they have carried out collaborative video workshops in Spanish high schools so as to raise awareness about global care chains.

Citation

Calderón, O. (2017). Feminist documentary cinema as a diffraction apparatus for the visualisation of care labour: the Spanish collective film Cuidado, resbala (2013). Feminist Media Studies, 17(2), 308-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1283750

• Journal Article Type: Note
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 8, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 4, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 9, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 9, 2018
• Journal: Feminist Media Studies
• Print ISSN: 1468-0777
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-5902
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 308-312
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1283750
• Keywords: Cuidado, resbala
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/918544
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2017.1283750
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