Movement

Application summary

Movement is an experimental film and installation. It is the result of a research process with militants from the Unemployed Workers Movement (MTD) in Argentina. Unemployed Workers Movement designates a political movement that emerged in Argentina in the late 90’, and is part of a political and historical sequence that remains open. It is a set of plebeian and popular knowledge, which added to accumulated historical knowledge and practices, were able to organize and create, based on the situation, forms of socialization, politicisation and different ways of life. Insurgents and rebels against capital. During the last two decades this peoples movement have formed its own Union, and became the vector for a new economic production model and political articulation. It can be described as myriad of forms of work “without a boss”, exemplified by the hundreds of factories and companies that have been recuperated by their workers. Co-operatives that have emerged as a response to systematic layoff, bankruptcies, and capital flight. Such projects gave rise to forms of self-management with strong desire for autonomy, territorial enterprise with popular assemblies, and the valorisation of community work. The art work Movement presents an open but revealing history of the political capacity of the Unemployed Workers Movement. I am interested in merging archival documents and experimental film to evaluate both the subject and the way of communicating it. Investigating how, and to what extend, radical forms of experimental moving-image art can be pertinent for a compelling representation of radical politics? Claiming that the formal particularities of film, allow for re-situating distant geographies and actualizing past events that might not be familiar for the spectator.