A Film by Cine Mujer: A Video Essay

• Main Author: Lorena Cervera Ferrer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University College Cork 2021-01-01
• Series: Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
• Subjects: cine mujer; colombian cinema; latin american women filmmakers; feminist film collectives; latin american political cinema
• Online Access: http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/VideoEssayCervera.html

Following recent endeavours that have unearthed women’s cinema and reclaimed its contribution to film history, this video essay revisits the filmography of the Colombian feminist film collective Cine Mujer (1978–1999). Narrated by three of its members—Eulalia Carrizosa, Patricia Restrepo, and Clara Riascos—through semi-structured interviews that intersect the personal, professional and political, this short film also reuses Cine Mujer’s archive. Its purpose is, one the one hand, to contribute to restoring its legacy and, on the other hand, to reframe and resignify its images within women’s ongoing battle for equality.