(Un)Building the nation’s body: Disabled citizenship in Huevos de oro (1993) and Cinco metros cuadrados (2011)

This article analyses Huevos de oro/Golden Balls (Luna, 1993) and Cinco metros cuadrados/Five Square Meters (Lemcke, 2011) as contrasting examples of the complex relationship between the transformations of place and space and the emergence of forms of marginal subjectivities shaped by notions of precarity and disability. I propose to call the cinematic translation of this coalescence ‘disabled citizenship’, which understands the experience of precarity through a conflicting interaction with the built environment that has profound physical and affective consequences.