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Guerrilla archiving: Documents for a feminist history of Latin American Cinemas
  • ISSN: 2050-4837
  • E-ISSN: 2050-4845

Abstract

This article delves into the work of Gabriela Bussenius (1889–1975), focusing on her 1917 feature film /. Bussenius was one of Chile’s pioneering female filmmakers who explored the struggles of and solidarities between women and the Mapuche. This article challenges film history’s erasure of Bussenius’s contributions, offering a critical reading of the extant materials, local film history and archive stories. It argues that the production and circulation of this film created an emancipated space, where gender and other hierarchies were abolished and thus were, albeit ephemeral, vehicles of counter-hegemonic forces.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Pratt Institute’s Faculty Advancement Fund 2023
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